/lit/ - Literature

>>16933512
the ultimate question is:
why be strong?
why continue being strong after people you loved and you thought were are at your side abandon you?
why try at all costs when things like this can happen and you have no power over it?
what is the meaning of the struggle if this is the final result?
loss of meaningful things is an earliest and truest taste of death. because in life we find ourselves with a pile of dust over everything we have built, expending energy, resources and life force.
we try to fight chance over and over but in the end we encounter the ultimate laugh of god.
why have attachments, desires, hopes?
everything to enjoy what we have for a small time and then see it crumble to nothing.
we continue to struggle to create this state of fleeting and agony-ridden happiness, to make it last as long as we can; but without any guaranteed result. the sources of happiness (lovers, dreams, achievements) can be destroyed outside of our control, either by them leaving or wills greater than our own. and yet we continue to stand and renew our faith in a "better" future.
god is a mediocre screenwriter. life is ridden with injustice, shit, insults and tackles of all sorts. everyone says: move on. you have to accept it and move on. but we cling to the things that gave us joy, our minds get attached and does everything in order to restore it. but those sources are gone, and our attempts to have it back are just cause of more sadness and remaining stuck. the only way to "move on" is realizing that it's gone, and that you can be only in the present and the rest of your life, by not feeding the attachment.

being hopeful and strong again in the face of loss and tragedy is ultimately irrational. It's a faith in something indefinite of the future.. we do it out of egoism, selfishness and renewed will.