Barmans from Ibiza drinking beers in Munich's Oktoberfest
February 8th 2007 02:02
Hi all,
last day i was discussing with a friend about the pros and cons of having to think about what the hell we should do of our few days left down here. We got, as most people do, to this horrible conclusion, which i hate, but i can't prove the inverse. And thus i have to agree...
The reasoing can be presented as follows: since we don't have a good reason to decide what the hell is the best to do, we spend our times thinking about how we should "act". Our Kierkegaard's "angst" takes our time while we loose our "grand style", suffering to decide if we should accept a certain job, move to another country, keep the girl or not.
What the hell, this could be simpler. Great philosophers like Sartre and Heidegger found their reasons and their idols to follow (maybe because of this i consider them not so great philosophers...). Sartre fell in love with communism, Heidegger with the nazis...and they had happy lifes, believing in something that they could use to guide their actions. Like philosophers would say, these guys found a posteriori the "essences" in their "existences"..
Ok, for me that's not the case. I've read to much Nietzsche to believe in idols. I don't buy either the normal line of { study - get a job - find a girl to marry - have kids - wait your turn at the cemetery } either. The worst, i don't agree even with Zarathoustra "eternel retour"...
In the end, it took me plenty of time to decide what the hell i should do. And worst, i keep myself asking the same questions over again, to be sure that the responses i have are still valid...
So, if it's so tuff to find a thing to believe, that would help us to know how to act to others (and we may even don't find something), isn't it better not to think about it at all? Wouldn't it be easier not having to define these matters in our lives? I see plenty of people who seem to have good lives following our pre-stablished rules, but now it's quite late for me, i started to think.
I think you already figured out the conclusion. Mate, ignorance is a bless. Go to the church, eat your bread every sunday and regret your sins. Meet a girl, have children, don't waste your time thinking you could be now working as a barman in Ibiza, or cheking out how do germans drink litters of beer in a couple of hours, singing idiot songs in tents in Munich, etc, etc, etc.
This post gives me a bridge to start talking about the third part of the things i wanted to present you. Next post i'll start talking about wisdom, or "how should you live your life"....hehe
Cheers! Uula
last day i was discussing with a friend about the pros and cons of having to think about what the hell we should do of our few days left down here. We got, as most people do, to this horrible conclusion, which i hate, but i can't prove the inverse. And thus i have to agree...
The reasoing can be presented as follows: since we don't have a good reason to decide what the hell is the best to do, we spend our times thinking about how we should "act". Our Kierkegaard's "angst" takes our time while we loose our "grand style", suffering to decide if we should accept a certain job, move to another country, keep the girl or not.
What the hell, this could be simpler. Great philosophers like Sartre and Heidegger found their reasons and their idols to follow (maybe because of this i consider them not so great philosophers...). Sartre fell in love with communism, Heidegger with the nazis...and they had happy lifes, believing in something that they could use to guide their actions. Like philosophers would say, these guys found a posteriori the "essences" in their "existences"..
Ok, for me that's not the case. I've read to much Nietzsche to believe in idols. I don't buy either the normal line of { study - get a job - find a girl to marry - have kids - wait your turn at the cemetery } either. The worst, i don't agree even with Zarathoustra "eternel retour"...
In the end, it took me plenty of time to decide what the hell i should do. And worst, i keep myself asking the same questions over again, to be sure that the responses i have are still valid...
So, if it's so tuff to find a thing to believe, that would help us to know how to act to others (and we may even don't find something), isn't it better not to think about it at all? Wouldn't it be easier not having to define these matters in our lives? I see plenty of people who seem to have good lives following our pre-stablished rules, but now it's quite late for me, i started to think.
I think you already figured out the conclusion. Mate, ignorance is a bless. Go to the church, eat your bread every sunday and regret your sins. Meet a girl, have children, don't waste your time thinking you could be now working as a barman in Ibiza, or cheking out how do germans drink litters of beer in a couple of hours, singing idiot songs in tents in Munich, etc, etc, etc.
This post gives me a bridge to start talking about the third part of the things i wanted to present you. Next post i'll start talking about wisdom, or "how should you live your life"....hehe
Cheers! Uula
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Comment by Adrian
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Comment by Uula Limanski
Thinking The World
Comment by Thiago
I've just decided do move to Europe in a few months, and when friends ask me why am I doing it, dropping a sure thing, well paid job and all that... one of my favourite answers is: you should just go to the oktoberfest in munich and you'll understand
Cheers from Brasil,
see you in Munich!
Comment by Uula Limanski
Thinking The World
But isn't Brazil a nice place too? Enjoy it as much as you can, so when you move you'll know that you know it well, and that now it is time to see other places
most of all, enjoy beer!!
Comment by Thiago
But it's a much better place to spend vacations than it is a place to live.
And well, in the battle between my 21 years living in Brazil and my 2 years in Europe.. Europe won by far!
So if I stayed here I would just spend my life boring everyone around me with my endless stories about travelling europe and I would spend all the money i'd make going back there on every vacation... hehe
Cheers, man!
Awesome blog. Been reading everything you post since I found it a couple of months ago