Existentialism (1941): a chiefly 20th Century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for his act of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
So what does that mean to us?
"Human existence cannot have a relationship with being unless it remains in the midst of nothingness."
M. Heidegger
What is a poet? An unhappy man who conceals profound anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so fashioned that when sighs and groans pass over them they sound like beautiful music Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
None of us are real until we make ourselves real through the trials and tribulations of life. Some how we must manage to survive the ordeal of being here and then we must impact the lives of those around us to change ourselves from characters to real humans. Sometimes this is to much for a person so they accept and stay in the static form of the human experience. But what trials bring about the change in anyone or everyone who has changed? Only they can say what makes or changes them it could be the little way life beats us down then lifts us up, the way we are forged into something more than the essence that makes us. Or it’s the way we beat down the world around us so we can flow though easier and make a path for others to follow. Maybe we all are velveteen rabbits just waiting for our fairy to make us real. I think I we forge ourselves to flow through life and what we see we make into our world. Nothing is to horrible for us to endure, as we are made of something that is greater than ourselves. We become then we are. Life is the lie we live and the truth is what we hide from ourselves as we believe we're to weak to handle what really is. When we are brought in to this world we are nothing more than characters in a play that's not been written yet, and yet we are the writers and poets of the world we encase ourselves in.
What are your thoughts?
