whats the best philosophical thing u heard or read about life , love, or existential angst? maybe u heard it in a lecture or read it in a book, what is it?
Hull is other people…
Hull?
Once upon a time, a few years ago, there was a guy who was me. And there was this girl in my class whose birthday it was. She brought chocolates to school and invited us to have some, in celebration of her making it through another year.
I personally like chocolate and chocolates a lot, so I ate mine with great delight.
I don’t know what had happened, but I found that chocolates were especially good that day . It must have been something in the air.
I wanted more.
I noticed that one of the girls in my class hadn’t touched her chocolate and had left it on the desk, probably to consume it later.
Then something inexplicable occurred.
A dark mist covered my eyes, and my reasoning faculties short-circuited. In an irrational and blurry moment, I snatched the chocolate and ate it with, I must admit, great delight. It was good.
After my display of honesty and fairness, I expected anxiously for my classmate to get angry and scold me.
She turned and saw that her chocolate was missing. She raised her eyes and looked at me - immediately she knew I was guilty.
“Did you eat it ?” “Aaahhh… Yes, I did…” “Oh, it’s ok.”
I was so thunderstruck by her apparent calm, that I couldn’t believe myself. I asked her if she was mad, and she said it was ok.
What a jerk I was.
I felt so bad, that I bought her a whole box of chocolates. I offerred it to her, alongside my apologies.
That was a great moment in my life.
Since then, I guide myself only by the categoric moral imperative.
No-one seemed to appreciate my joke about Hull…
I’m going to get depressed now and reflect on the miserable futility of life for a few seconds.
Having consumed a raisin I’ve recovered from my depression.
About what you said…I wonder if the kantian categorical imperativ is of any help when you are depressed and you just want to be left alone.
I also wonder if raisins are good antidepressives. I used to like raisins a lot. I once bought half of kilo and ate them all at once. They gave me nausea and for the rest of the evening I had the impression that in no time at all raisins are going to come out of my nose.
I have the tendency to avoid raisins now.