Path of tears
所有的記憶都是潮濕的*
(All memories are traces of tears)
Even if this quote comes only from a film, I’d like to include it in my favourites Chinese fortunes, since it describes one of the strongest truths of life.
Indeed, no one was ever born without crying, as soon as oxygen got into his lungs. No one ever died without regrets.
Perhaps it is a bit extremist to say that every memory we have is sad, but it is not far from the truth. Tears make up most part of our lives, the part spared by boredom, while happiness is just a solitary flower in a frozen field. There is no such a question as whether life is beautiful or cruel, but whether the moments of happiness are worth carrying on.
Personally I think the good spikes justify survival, but the advantage is very small and it is quite easy to pass the border. Thus the scorn for those who chose that way is not justifiable.
Well, I think that human beings have the strong tendency to remember the moments of sadness and melancholy, the regrets and pain more than joy and happiness, the things they accept in their lifes (I can’t find the contrary of “regret”. If you do so, please inform me, if not, it will be another proof of what I am about to say) and the lack of pain (again… is it the contrary of “pain”?). I dunno why… maybe they’re stronger feelings, maybe some evolutionistic mechanisms lead us to act like that I leave a draft of explaination: If we remembered only positive feelings, we would spend our whole life in their contemplation instead of trying to improve our material condition. We would think about meals instead of preparing them, think about the sex we had had once and so on…
I know it might seem a kind of paranoic explaination, but there can be something true inside…
Comment by Pawel — 20/3/2005 @ 11:27 am
The antonym to the verb to regret is to applaud and to welcome, while the noun has none. Pain has as an antonym Aponia.
Comment by chopinhauer — 20/3/2005 @ 11:55 am