Hey Mencius,
the other day I read what I am quoting below… and you came to the mind.
“Here is how you disturb the universe to make meaning. It isn’t pretty, and there’s a reason most who are able to do it on a grand scale are above forty.
Winning before making. This is survival.
Making before beauty. This is perpetuation.
Beauty before virtue. This is leadership.
Virtue before truth. This is realism.
To win you may need to do destructive, ugly, vicious, and false things.
Then, to create, you may need to do ugly, vicious, and false things.
To make your creations endure, so they don’t go away when you stop believing in them, you may need to do beautiful, vicious, and false things.
Then, you may need to do beautiful, virtuous, and false things to create happiness.
And finally, you may choose to seek truth. This is an optional, meaningless, and essentially solitary activity. Something the immortal and free may choose to do, to entertain themselves in the amusement park that is the part of eternity that does not go away when you stop believing in it.”
May I send a hug? I am a man, I am not homosexual, it’s a spiritual hug.
Sometimes, life feels a little less bitter thinking that, well, we aren’t the only one to be free, or to have a truth-longing soul.
There a few others in the world.
Sometimes, even a smiles comes out of this.
