01-13-2012, 07:50 PM
(01-13-2012, 07:33 PM)skorch Wrote: I did speak with someone I met over an online game about everything. It felt alright expressing how I felt. Then he said stop talking negative.
What a waste of time.
There's a book entitled The General in His Labyrinth, about Simón Bolívar.
There's a certain part of that book that I think applies here.
Quote:He (Bolívar) was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. "Damn it," he sighed. "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!"
Those were his last words.
So, the question is, is the labyrinth living or dying? What is it? Which was he trying to escape? The world, or the end of it?
I don't think it's either. I think it's suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. Bolívar was talking about pain, not about living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? Suffering is universal. I could be entirely wrong, but that's my take on it. Everyone suffers. Not everyone suffers equally, but it's something everyone has to worry about.