quarta-feira, abril 23, 2008
Possible
'Is it possible really to love other people?
If I'm lonely and in pain, everyone outside is potential relief - I need them.
But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn't a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs?
How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else's needs that I can't even feel directly?
And yet if I can't do this, I'm damned to loneliness, which I definitely don't want... so I'm back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.
Is there any way out of this bind?'
Dostoevsky
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If I'm lonely and in pain, everyone outside is potential relief - I need them.
But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn't a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs?
How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else's needs that I can't even feel directly?
And yet if I can't do this, I'm damned to loneliness, which I definitely don't want... so I'm back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.
Is there any way out of this bind?'
Dostoevsky
