This is just going to be a quick little blog. I woke up this morning with a text message on my phone that said, "Good Morning". At first I thought nothing of it yet my mind began to flow and I started thinking about the word "morning". Why is it that the word "morning" and "mourning" are spelled so similarly? Only one letter breaks the two words apart. I thought, "Is this intentional". My common sense tells me it is simply by chance yet, I had to delve deeper into the situation.
I have been reading a lot about existentialism recently and this whole blog is driven through that reading. Now you wake up today and say to yourself, "Good morning". Follow that by thinking to yourself, "What is my reason for existing?". You may have a sense of dread and anguish building inside of you over this thought, possibly fear of existing for no purpose. Through this dread and anguish you realize that you are alive and in fact do exist. You begin to understand that there is no purpose in life and you must carve out your own reason for existing. We do not all have special reasons for living or existing, that would be a delusion of grandeur on our part as humans. Instead, we must recognize that there is no solid reason we live and breathe. It is healthy though, to feel dread, anguish, and fear over this subject, don't be afraid. Experiencing this ultimate state of depression just causes you to live life all the better, it also seems to make all the happy and pleasant moments of life all the sweeter. I only have this to say to you on this fine day, "Good Mourning".
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Yep, I've come to terms with this fact a long time ago. There is no predetermined reason for anyone to live, everyone must simply find a purpose in life. My only real goal in life is to be happy, regardless of how I achieve that.
I had this reply tab open for a few hours now, and read the comment, and then clicked Show Original Post and only glanced and saw a few words, only conscious of the one "carve" and immediately thought of carving pumpkins and then this next paragraph, followed by how it relates to art in general and why we should want to do it.
Anyway, pumpkin carving gives you a chance to carve your mark in some way. It's like life in that if you make a mistake you are stuck with it, but what is different about life is that you can have a second, and third, or however many pumpkins you can find times to do it all over again, to have a new life.
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