Reading ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’
‘Any schoolboy can do physics experiments in the laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.’ Milan Kundera.
Is life a long-distance race?
Just as I can’t keep a journal if I am ill, so I find I have no desire to ‘converse’ with myself like this if I am depressed. Being unwilling to keep my journal is both a symptom and a cause of the depression. The less I ‘post,’ the more days I miss, the more depressed I become, the more disabled I feel.
‘Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.’
It is a film premise – getting life over, having a second or third chance.
We are stuck with the choices we make, the decisions we make, the rash or the brave, the impulsive or well considered, the emotional or objective. Sometimes the best decision to take is no decision at all.
Reading ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being.’
Mind Bursts 