Comments | silentpalms: "She's a lot more talented than she realizes, I think."

silentpalms

"She's a lot more talented than she realizes, I think."

Jun 22, 2006 01:41

I found myself shivering on the edge of that darkness... the questions that inevitably arise out of it. Why do I bother? What am I doing? Why do anything? What's the point ( Read more... )

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possiblydead June 22 2006, 05:46:17 UTC

i talk about tAng all the time :) heck, i was talking about you on the plane back to NC today :P.

ben = remembers tAng

daeren June 22 2006, 16:54:58 UTC

I don't know about this tAng character, but Katrina's in my thoughts pretty regularly. Strange how though I went away after knowing so many people for only a year or two, they still persist pretty readily in my mind. Interesting.

troglodyteking September 13 2006, 14:22:36 UTC

[And I go back and finally reread on this post like I have been meaning to all summer.]

Ah, existential crises. They're fun, ain't they? I seem to mostly (but not completely) be immune to that sort of fundamental confusion/despair (I am a pretty happy and self-contented person most of the time, even if I angst over how the world is not as I would like it to be), but I know a lot of intellectuals have that problem.

Something you might find interesting is some existential literature. I am not that familiar with existentialism, but one thing that comes to mind is The Myth of Sisyphus, and essay by Camus. He uses the predicament of Sisyphus in Greek mythology, specifically his fate in Hades (perpetually forced to push a boulder up a hill only to have it slip from his grasp right before he gets to the top and tumble back down), to make a point about a possible approach to life and creating meaning for it ( ... )