ABOUT ME

Creative. Sensible. Story-teller. Empathizing.

Interests

Literature. Haruki Murakami. Fyodor Dostoyevski. Dance. Yoga. Poetry.

• horses
• literature
• poetry
• dancing
• yoga

Music, Movies, and Books

Portrait of Dorian Gray, TEDBooks, Perfume, etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Very recently I read this passage from Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript:

It is impossible to exist without passion, unless existing means just any sort of so-called existence. For this reason every Greek thinker was essentially a passionate thinker. I have often wondered how one might bring a man to passion. So I thought I might seat him on a horse and frighten the horse into a wild gallop, or still better, in order to bring out the passion properly, I might take a man who wants to go somewhere as quickly as possible (and so was already in a sort of passion) and seat him on a horse that can barely walk. But this is just how existence is, if one becomes conscious of it. Or if someone hitched a carriage with a Pegasus and an old nag, and told the driver, who was not usually inclined to passion, "Now, drive" : I think that would succeed. And this is just how existence is, if one becomes conscious of it. Eternity is the winged horse, infinitely quick and time is the old nag, and the existing individual is the driver; that is to say he is the driver when his existence is not merely a so-called existence, for then he is no driver, but a drunken paesant who sleeps in the wagon and lets horses wander where they will. True, he also drives, he is a driver, and so there are perhaps many who-also exist

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Albania, United States