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It’s positive in a way. Sure, you always lose in the end, but you can have a lot of fun in the meantime.
by evincarofautumn 13y ago
It’s positive in a way. Sure, you always lose in the end, but you can have a lot of fun in the meantime.
- tripzilch 13y agoIndeed. To paraphrase Alan Watts, life isn't like a pilgrimage with a very important goal at the end, it's more like a musical thing, and you are supposed to laugh and sing and dance throughout, not just wait for the final chord.
- vincentbarr 13y agoOr, "Human life is like walking into a movie halfway through, and having to walk out again two minutes later. You’ll have no idea what’s going on when you walk in. And chances are, just as you begin to get a clue, you’ll be kicked out. So unless you are lucky enough to walk in during a scene that is satisfying without any longer narrative context (think sex or violence), your ability to derive satisfaction from your two-minute glimpse will depend partly on your ability to construct meaning out of it... [so], approach your limited two-minute glimpse of the movie as though you’ve been watching all along, and as though you might stick around to see how it all ends" (source: http://goo.gl/kLeWxw http://goo.gl/kLeWxw)