The reality is that dying not bad, but it lasts forever. And forever is outside the time
There are these two young fish swimming along , and at some point encounter an older fish swimming in the opposite direction, which makes a nod and says, "'Day, guys, how's the water?". The two young fish continue to swim for a while ', and finally one of them turns to another and does, "What the hell is water?"
If you fear that I will submit to you as the fish old man who explains what the water, do not worry. Are not the wise old fish. The key point of the story of the fish is that fact more obvious, ubiquitous and important ones are often harder to see and where it is more difficult to speak. Put in these terms, of course, is not that a cliche, but the fact is that, in the trenches everyday adult existence, clichés can be a matter of life or death. It may sound like hyperbole, or nonsensical abstraction. Come down to basics, then ...
Why is there something else true, and it is this: in the daily trenches of adult life, atheism does not exist. It is impossible not to worship something. All worship. The only choice we can do is what worship. And a good reason to choose to worship some kind of deity or spiritual being-Jesus Christ or Allah, Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess, the Four Noble Truths or some unbreakable set of ethical principles-is that virtually any other Revered what you end up eaten alive. If worshiped money and items-if you place them in the true meaning of Life, you never enough. You'll never hear they've had enough. This is the truth. Revered your own body, your beauty and your charm, and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age will begin to be noticed, die a million times before they really leave you.
In a way, all the stuff we already know this-was codified in the form of myths, proverbs, clichés, tranquilizers, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is to keep firmly in front of you the truth in everyday consciousness. Revered power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever greater power over others to keep away the fear. Revered your intelligence, your brilliance, you'll end up feeling stupid, impostors, always about to be unmasked.
Truth with a capital concerns life before death. Regards the possibility of being able to get to thirty, or fifty, without any desire to be a shot in the head. It concerns the simple awareness-awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, we must continue to repeat constantly:
"This is water, this is the water behind these Eskimos there is much more than meets the eye. " Do it, live in a conscious, adult, day after day, is an unimaginable difficulties. This demonstrates the truth of another cliché: your culture is really the work of a lifetime and begins ... now. Augurarvi buona fortuna sarebbe troppo poco.
Il testo integrale della conferenza di David Foster Wallace
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