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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Living to Kill Yourself?

"We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying. Little by little. It's a sequenced collection of individual deaths."

-Excerpt from Chuck Klosterman's KILLING YOURSELF TO LIVE


A thought provoking line that caused me to reflect on the individual deaths I've experienced. The death of childhood, the death of relationships, the death of moments too mundane to encapsulate in memory, the death of good times too precious to last, the death of naive optimism through bitter experience. It's interesting to discover that as our lives fill up they're simultaneously being chipped away at. I suppose that's the paradox of each passing day in our peepholes of existence.

2 Comments:

At 4:02 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh god are you okay?
haha. j/k!
true dat, existential homie.
take the optimist route, stuff being over just means other stuffs a-comin!

 
At 11:59 PM, Blogger Beezle said...

Haha, oh Evan.

The line tickled me for some reason. I don't look at death as a negative necessarily, it's just an ending to something. Period. Deaths within a life can be very powerful and in an ironic twist enhance life. I think there's a profound beauty in it, is all. And you're right, death begets life.

 

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