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The Contradictions in Me
"Every sort of conscious, in fact, is a disease." -- Notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky I embrace myself with the most acute puncture of my acupuncture points. I dissect and analyze myself in parts, separating my ego into emotions and rationality so that I can see and understand…
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On Creating Art and Living Life with Telos
Nietzsche believes that art is both the origin of morality and the tool for liberation, given its multifaceted creativity. Freud, influenced by Nietzsche, develops a system of psychoanalysis giving values to humans' imagination and memory. Art indeed, is a subjective beauty, imprinting humans' steps throughout history. It is…
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Well and Sky
How deep can I sink, how dark can I be. I never perceived the infinite within myself, for I could never imagine the place of my heart as a hollow well without the bottom. I've only imagined it to be a black sky where I sat alone in…
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To Do Inappropriate Things at Inappropriate Times
Recently, an idea that has been engulfing me for the past year became more and more clear to my mind, like the deep subtle waves finally have the chance to release their violence on the surface of the sea. I am officially and seriously considering the option of studying abroad…
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Where is my son?
It was a sunny afternoon in November. The old man went out to the garden of the big house that his son bought him three years ago with a wheelchair. The flowers he planted with his son were swinging in the cool wind. For a long time, he stared at…