Many middle-aged men lack a definite goal, just like a stray kite lacks a thread. It is not merely the anxiety of the emigrants and all those relocated people. It is also the sentiment worrying many locals who have been living on their homeland for decades.
I have a friend back home and he just complained that to me this morning. He says he lacks a goal and lacks the vigor to pursue for something and also lacks the resolution to make a change is his life. He is institutionalized by his own life which is too stable and too smooth. It is understandable. Living in this world, all souls suffer from anxieties of different types during different phases in their life. When they are young they want to grow up quickly and graduate soon. When they are virgins they want to taste the flabour of love and sex as early as possible. When they are students they want to get out of school and make money, but when they start to work and make money they realize that they are selling their time and life and they regret and even resent working like that; they begin to look forward to weekends, holidays and retirement. When they have tasted love and sex they want more, but when they have more and probably too much they begin to feel empty or upset, probably mixed with a queer sense of happiness, just like Moyan said in one of his novels: the man slipped down from his wife's belly after hard work and felt a sort of empty happiness. People in work want ultimate financial freedom so that they can stop selling either their muscle or their brain. But probably only one people in one hundred thousand can finally realize their luxury dream of the so-called ultimate financial freedom. Some thoughtful people believe people suffer from all kinds of sorrows and woes and anxieties only because they harbour too many desires in their bosom. They need to negate and eliminate their desires and simplify their life so that they can possess more freedom, namely, they could possess more possession of their own life. This actually means people should annihilate their dreams if they want to live a down-to-earth life; but a lot other argue saying that it is a colourful bubble of illusion that will burst easily facing hard facts of this commodified and reified human world. Both make much sense. Shall we adopt the golden mean?
Yes, we should. For life is like a sword which would be highly breakable if there is too much the hard substances steel and it will be much stronger if something softer is added to it for sometimes softer substance are not hard but they are very tough.
A river needs water. They are the goal and life of each other.
What man is to a goal a river is to water.
I have a friend back home and he just complained that to me this morning. He says he lacks a goal and lacks the vigor to pursue for something and also lacks the resolution to make a change is his life. He is institutionalized by his own life which is too stable and too smooth. It is understandable. Living in this world, all souls suffer from anxieties of different types during different phases in their life. When they are young they want to grow up quickly and graduate soon. When they are virgins they want to taste the flabour of love and sex as early as possible. When they are students they want to get out of school and make money, but when they start to work and make money they realize that they are selling their time and life and they regret and even resent working like that; they begin to look forward to weekends, holidays and retirement. When they have tasted love and sex they want more, but when they have more and probably too much they begin to feel empty or upset, probably mixed with a queer sense of happiness, just like Moyan said in one of his novels: the man slipped down from his wife's belly after hard work and felt a sort of empty happiness. People in work want ultimate financial freedom so that they can stop selling either their muscle or their brain. But probably only one people in one hundred thousand can finally realize their luxury dream of the so-called ultimate financial freedom. Some thoughtful people believe people suffer from all kinds of sorrows and woes and anxieties only because they harbour too many desires in their bosom. They need to negate and eliminate their desires and simplify their life so that they can possess more freedom, namely, they could possess more possession of their own life. This actually means people should annihilate their dreams if they want to live a down-to-earth life; but a lot other argue saying that it is a colourful bubble of illusion that will burst easily facing hard facts of this commodified and reified human world. Both make much sense. Shall we adopt the golden mean?
Yes, we should. For life is like a sword which would be highly breakable if there is too much the hard substances steel and it will be much stronger if something softer is added to it for sometimes softer substance are not hard but they are very tough.
A river needs water. They are the goal and life of each other.
What man is to a goal a river is to water.
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