Graduate Lawyer doing Master in International Bus. Law. and when im not hounded by assignments or papers I likewise have my existential bouts. Ed im throwing some Dante Alighieri your way
"Should natural disposition find itself
not in accord with Fortune, then it must
fail as a seed in alien soil must die.
If men on earth were to pay greater heed
to the foundation Nature has laid down,
and build on that, they would build greater men.
But those men bent to wear the sword you twist
into the priesthood, and you make a king
out of a man whose calling was to preach:
you find yourselves on roads not meant for you."
The Divine Comedy: Paradise, Canto VIII, Verses 139-147
What is the "lost coast" of our destiny? Is it a place we once were or do we strive in hope of seeing it for the first time? Should one accept social compromise or does one return irrevocably to oneself?
We are condemned to choose, as the Philosopher puts it, in a universe of endless possibilities. There is no escape from that, in this life or the next. Freedom comes from how you choose; if you weigh "have to do" against "dont have to do" or employ "this I like" and "this I do not like" as your measure. In the first, one is always a prisoner of circumstances while in the second a prisoner of oneself. I prefer the latter. Better alone but on your own path than burdened with other people's madness, as the Greek saying goes.
And so the journey continues. We shall see.
"Should natural disposition find itself
not in accord with Fortune, then it must
fail as a seed in alien soil must die.
If men on earth were to pay greater heed
to the foundation Nature has laid down,
and build on that, they would build greater men.
But those men bent to wear the sword you twist
into the priesthood, and you make a king
out of a man whose calling was to preach:
you find yourselves on roads not meant for you."
The Divine Comedy: Paradise, Canto VIII, Verses 139-147
What is the "lost coast" of our destiny? Is it a place we once were or do we strive in hope of seeing it for the first time? Should one accept social compromise or does one return irrevocably to oneself?
We are condemned to choose, as the Philosopher puts it, in a universe of endless possibilities. There is no escape from that, in this life or the next. Freedom comes from how you choose; if you weigh "have to do" against "dont have to do" or employ "this I like" and "this I do not like" as your measure. In the first, one is always a prisoner of circumstances while in the second a prisoner of oneself. I prefer the latter. Better alone but on your own path than burdened with other people's madness, as the Greek saying goes.
And so the journey continues. We shall see.