On July 27th i celebrated my 23rd birthday. Unlike other birthdays, i had to confront some profound questions. Partly because it was around the time when Manchester United revealed they were willing to pay $60 million for Carlos Tevez. He is 23 years old too. I just wondered what i was worth.
23 years of life. What has it been worth. Is anything in life worth anything. Or is it a cardinal mistake to even think of quantifying a person's life. Or is it like what Dirk Diggler said in 'Boogie Nights' "Everybody has a talent". I remember having the same problem on my 19th birthday, but then i was able to brush it away by telling myself "Greatness is just round the corner". Can i still say that. People like Hitchcock and Salman Rushdie came good only in the second part of their lives. Do I find myself in that league????
Sometimes i end up believing in what Tyler Durden said "We are the middle children of history. There is no great purpose or great war or great depression in this life time". Hence no purpose .
Are we all that insignificant????????
Only thing that comes to my mind right now are the lyrics of Police's Message in a bottle "Just a cast away, Island lost at sea. Another lonely day........... no one here but me . I'll send an SOS to the world.........................."
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- sree harsha
- Sree Harsha.R writes code for a livelihood and lives to read books. He spends most of his time working on "Object Oriented Programming" and daydreams about winning the Booker prize.
3 comments:
idi ayethe kummindi ...
mare yekkuva questions adegestunnavu anna.....naaku naameda kooda doubt teppistunnavu..
actual ga ee blog purpose kooda ade anukunta. ;)
I am an existentialist(and fucking proud of it). So i hate cheap ass, gimmicky, no talent, nihilist Chuck Palahniuk and his Fight Club. The book and the movie are certified macho porn.
Wat the fuck does he mean by 'middle children of history'? Go tell the kids in Baghdad that the reason their lives are shit is becoz they missed out on the great war and the great depression.
This aint Fucking Middle Earth is it? Or does he want to give each person one nice boss fight (which they can obviously win) per level(life) so that they then attach meaning to their life?
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