Currently I'm reading a book about an extraordinary sophisticated person, amazingly intelligent Susan Sontag. And reading about her studying in Berkeley, Chicago, Boston, people who she met and the person she herself was strikes me every time with a kind of painful and demeaning bewilderment of how it even was possible that he (!!!!) answered me from the beginning. And how he kept spending his precious time answering me again and again. How is it possible? He is from those, Susan Sontag's worlds, where people discuss Hegel, Marx, Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault, etc etc etc etc etc... and I haven't even read most of them. I would be happy to, but it's complicated and it takes a lot of time and I try to do my best, but even if I try, I am incomparably far from all of them. My mind is longing for transcending itself, thirsty for new horizons, but at the same time aware of its tremendous limitidness. And this is sometime a torture, to know that you will never know, to realize that you will never realize. That I will never reach those depths which some people - and he as well! - discovered and explored. I just can imagine them but not cognize. And it confuses me how he even answered to me.. who am I? Just… well.. ordinary someone out there.
Today is one of those days when I think about suicide. Even though it happens because of pain and meaningless and emptiness that fill me, that ARE me, nevertheless these thoughts also comfort me in some sense. It’s like having at least one solution in store. When everything feels like an absurd and seems to be an impasse, a thought “should I really stop it all? what’s the point? what else may surprise me here? what else if anything can make me feel as if I wasn’t me?” - such thought smooths my mental nausea a bit. A hamster keeps running on a wheel but for some short time he falls into sweet self-deception that he can stop whenever he wants.
Today is one of those days when I think about suicide. Even though it happens because of pain and meaningless and emptiness that fill me, that ARE me, nevertheless these thoughts also comfort me in some sense. It’s like having at least one solution in store. When everything feels like an absurd and seems to be an impasse, a thought “should I really stop it all? what’s the point? what else may surprise me here? what else if anything can make me feel as if I wasn’t me?” - such thought smooths my mental nausea a bit. A hamster keeps running on a wheel but for some short time he falls into sweet self-deception that he can stop whenever he wants.