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“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children, life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes
by serjester 5y ago
“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children, life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves. Not until … a distance appears between what they are and what the world is, does the question arise: what makes life worth living?” — Karl Ove Knausgård
Said better than I could ever try.
- Adamantisa 5y agoDo you want to be a child?
- mbrudd 5y agoSome kids would disagree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28861912 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28861912
- thunkshift1 5y agoWtf japan, that was dark
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- godDLL 5y agoFrom my own experience this might have only been true before the age of 4 when I woke up to the world. After that only when I am so strongly identified with and attached to what is going on that it's unhealthy. Or when I have gotten it all so Zen that I don't have to decide anything, everything flows.