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Tag: existential crisis

  • What does it mean for [a] life to be “worth living”?

    I have been reading about Socrates and have finally come to the texts Crito and Apology. In the latter, Socrates utters the line “The unexamined life is not worth living,” which has always made me wonder. It is a popular line, so much so that it seems as though its meaning should be straightforward, yet…

  • Spotlight, 1

    And when all of that is said and done— When all of what? That, this whole thing with our being human beings— You mean, how we’ve got ends and beginnings? Yes, but more than that: How right here, in the middle this middle section where things are moving around it but not through it not…

  • Some essay [Walking with Christ]

    Some essay [Walking with Christ]

    I think I may have been looking at the earlier question the wrong way, focusing on “the limits” of Jesus and how I could ever be able to cope with that. The keyword could instead be will. What do I will? What am I willing to do?

  • Finding Chai and Time Again

    Finding Chai and Time Again

    I once professed a hatred towards anything that is not plain black coffee but I find myself at this moment absolutely in love with every sip of this drink. It is not the best sort of chai; there is only enough spice for it to be called a chai but I know I have had…

  • Night; shade

    Night; shade

    The night is futile, as is any attempt to survive; to sleep is neither Being nor Nothing— Being: unreal, impossible, Truly—

  • On Defining Terms

    The World is full of inhibitions I cannot write the world I see for it cannot be true. My vision is fractured; it is nothing but a piece of glass—nothing is no more. Nothing is no longer natural—to be nothing is sinful here in the World that deceives the truth stares at me observer vis-à-vis…

  • In theory

    We are but storms and it overwhelms me the thought of no fair days and neither rain I want the cold winters and blazing summers the whole spectrum of colour in theory I want to witness it, all from afar; I want to see—this is the expected response, the right answer All I want is…

  • It

    Terrible: Has it any worth? It? Has it any value anymore at all? It? Has it anything left in its shadowing capacity—where is the fortitude cleansed by grace? There lies some sort of power overcome by a vacuuming guilt riddled with shame intangible and abstract— It does not seem to matter, it does not seem…

  • Thoughts right after watching episode 8 of “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” <이상한 변호사 우영우>

    My excitement for every new episode often feels more like anxiety. As I wait for the Netflix upload, I feel antsy, almost as if the usual mindless habit of reading through summaries to know what would happen in a story beforehand becomes a compulsion to be addressed instead. This is this strong urge to scroll…

  • ‘Blossom Away’ (2014)

    ‘Blossom Away’ (2014)

    Blossom away to wherever, that day I find burning leaves that never turn to ashes They sparkle like the ocean drawn by moon lit by sun I like them to be colder than bluest point alive Flowing away like the wind, liquefied I want to hold on to their edges, and draggedto, fro, away and…