Tag: hope

  • What does it take to live?

    What does it take to live?

    The idea that we do not easily concede, to external pressures or internal struggles, has always been a constant. We talk about it often (and quite conveniently) in moments of calamity, mainly to raise the morale of those caught in the storm.

    Human resiliency is a truly curious thing. We find it hard to imagine ourselves at the center of a tragedy; yet when push comes to shove and it actually happens, we persevere—though never without scars.

    We constantly find ourselves in difficult situations, some of us more often than others. But still, how is it that we are able to keep standing?

  • On the Mundanity and my End Goal

    On the Mundanity and my End Goal

    It was almost exactly around this time yesterday when it came to my mind—though it was definitely sunnier then—I once again found myself facing the mundane. Of all the possible paths, I caught myself taking what other people would call modern slavery, especially in this country. This thought, as pessimistic as it sounded, was actually an optimistic and romantic approach, or so I’d like to believe.

    The mundanity and the sense of “normality” that it brings are what I believe to be essential in my story as a unique human being: my slow-burning road to academia and Philosophy—the struggle against the mundane toward my dream.