Love, Longing, Passion and Need

You cannot look clearly at tomorrow without taking off lenses such as love, affection, longing, passion, ardour and need. Even the most innocent hope deceives you. And for the deceived, peace becomes a mirage.

The bitterest part is that with every effort, every attempt, the one thing you understand again and again is that in this life you are utterly alone.

We once said: I knocked on a wrong door, my friends, and a wrong door opened wide.

Ours is still a fate waiting to sail from the same harbour. A misty valley where errors mingle with loneliness. You cannot see a step ahead. What you called good turns bad in a moment, while a hand from what you called bad lifts you when you fall face down.

In this life where no one can stay the same, it is your ability to question everything that isolates you. Otherwise, truly, ignorance is happiness.

Apart from the ignorant who know a great deal and the happy who know nothing at all, who that thinks, feels, questions, does not fear and is not bigoted can be happy in this world, and by what means? Is there such a person?

In a world tangled by lies, deceit, chaos, hunger, misery, thieves, interests, politics, grand causes and small calculations, how will you isolate yourself and manufacture a happiness of your own?

Say you managed it. Will the hungry not come to mind whenever you eat? Can you manage that? Never mind Africa, will the poverty near you not tire your mind? Will the sick not come to mind when you exercise, the blind when you watch a view, the deaf when you listen to music? Will the question of how they live without these beauties not fall into your heart?

Did you say that this is no way to live, be grateful for your lot?

Yes, it is hard to live this way. But swimming in the illusions of happiness, far from the truth, is harder still.

And gratitude.

I have always said it and no one understood; I received strange answers. Let me ask it here too and end today's headache session.

Would you say, beside a blind man, that you are grateful your eyes can see? Would that not hurt him? Would it not also give him the right to protest?

So saying, in someone's absence, a thing you would not say in their presence does not make you very moral either.

Give it a thought.

Ediz