I am responsible for my actions, which I can examine and control through rigorous exertion of self-discipline.” I can discover the object of my earnest pursuit only within the flickering self. I need to accept fate calmly and dispassionately, make productive use of my modest allotment of time, and not waste the spark of existence. I exert no power over external things and gain nothing from resisting fate. Nor can I endorse suicide because it accomplishes nothing other than terminating a person’s opportunity to meld meaning out of the starkness of existence. It is foolish to squander an earthly life in pursuit of a perfect afterlife, of which there is no evidence. I find no reassurance and emotional wellbeing in adopting religious piety, which requires acceptance and belief of intangible and empirically unprovable concepts and things. I cannot repose faith in a national ethos that promotes avariciousness, mediocrity, and hedonism. I lack the mental aptitude and intellectual capacity to debate nuances of esoteric philosophy and abstract ethical principles. “I hold no interest in the tapestry of politics, culture, or religion.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |