/lit/ - Literature

i think for me nowadays my goal and purpose and meaning is just to increase my power of acting/capacities to act as much as possible, and see where that goes. life is essentially a never ending apprenticeship where we slowly experiment, figure out what agrees with our nature and what doesn't, and organise our actions and thoughts accordingly. i realise now what i could never have realised when I was younger - this takes time, a lot of time, and a lot of experimenting (which essentially means aimless groping around and suffering). its something which is sort of measurable and you can feel it, it feels good to have mastery of myself + freedom. the man who makes no attempt to organise their passions + actions, who gets thrown around by anything external, these are the weak ones that will suffer. what matters the most is that we STRIVE, not that we reach our end goal, but that we strive as hard as we can. i call that man strong who strives as hard as he can to organise his actions and passions, not the man who has had it given to him on a plate

apart from this, i enjoy the aesthetic aspect of life, even in suffering. a walk in nature makes everything better