tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post114015115049013925..comments2023-10-15T08:40:12.715-05:00Comments on Interdisciplinary World: No RegretsTroy Camplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-7931917626655921832010-08-01T10:39:58.267-05:002010-08-01T10:39:58.267-05:00Troy--I love love love this. It has been precisely...Troy--I love love love this. It has been precisely my reading of Nietzsche and, now that you have put it so nicely into words for me, I can say it has been this reading that led to my conversion. No doubt. To me, it is this thinking that is truly christian (and for me, Catholic). For, in my opinion, this think like this, to truly affirm life, all of it, is to begin to think like God, who before He even lifted a finger would already know every detail of history--that before lifting a finger its already determined, and yet He made the choice to make it happen anyway. And as if to put an exclamation on the statement, He became Christ to the world. <br /><br />As an aside--I'm surprised you did not reference the abyss. I've always considered Nietzsche's abyss to be in the same realm as the "eternal return"--the abyss is all that regret, horror, pain, disdain, and disgust of all those things that happen to us, around us, that we make happen and not. <br /><br />To "look into the Abyss and laugh" is the affirmation--even more I would say it is a triumph. It is so easy to look at anything and see only the ugly. But, it is just as simply to see the beautiful in the same object. And we have a choice in that. <br /><br />Personally, I always look at the ugly and laugh--I look into the abyss and laugh, because the beauty that I let myself see is always the greater. And I would gladly live at the edge of the abyss and even in it for that beauty to be. <br /><br />As for Anonymous: I think you might be missing an important point. YOU HAVE A CHOICE. Not simply "an opportunity" you refused--but in HOW YOU RESPOND. In other words, you are choosing regret. I can't imagine what it was that was so unbelievably awesome to cast a shadow on your whole life--that you should let it cast a shadow. And since then, has it been so bad? You cannot look at your life since and see any good things that have happened? Not merely to you--you are not the center of the universe. Has it ever occurred to you the impact you have had on people that you could not otherwise have impacted had you chose that opportunity. <br /><br />And who the hell are you to judge your life "worth living" or not? Is your view so narrow that life can only be one way to be "worth living"???? Granted, I'm deeply Nietzschean--but for me, the hard lived, hard fought life with grit and grime... You speak as though your life is already done. Wake up--you can start acting differently, making different choices RIGHT NOW. And if not now, tomorrow, too! The problem with taking initiative is making the leap--leaping into the abyss, you take a chance in how the abyss will respond... I suppose in that way regrets are safer. Its so much safer for you to sit and IMAGINE what would have happened, how nice it would have been. Truth is, you don't know. Just as you don't know what may happen in the future if you only let go of the past. Let go of yourself... Our minds play tricks on us to keep us safe. But in the end, we find we haven't lived at all...KAMHauckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07579967962286796864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-1166487547130062402006-12-18T18:19:00.000-06:002006-12-18T18:19:00.000-06:00Regrets are difficult todefeat, but are not undefe...Regrets are difficult todefeat, but are not undefeatable. One must not abandon hope -- and do not forget all the beauty in the world that necessarily came about because of your decision. Tragedy teaches us that even misfortune isbeautiful.Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910834.post-1166431938948142522006-12-18T02:52:00.000-06:002006-12-18T02:52:00.000-06:00Your text is wonderfully written therefore I reall...Your text is wonderfully written therefore I really wanted to leave you a comment. I was quite surprised to read your text and the references to Thus Spoke Zarathustra. That book was my childhood reading book. I used to go through it every night before falling asleep. I was very little at that time and therefore had little understanding of it but overall it fascinated me, I was searching for wisdom and lucidity, things that were quite difficult to find around me. <BR/>I came across your text while I was searching desperately ways to defeat a deep regret that has turned my life around. A wonderful opportunity I rejected that could have made my life beautiful and worth living. The worst thing is that I started regretting it two years later when I realized that life would not have been so hard and black if I acted different towards that opportunity life had so kindly offered to me. An opportunity that comes only once in your life. After two years I started wanting it back but having so much pride I did not do things the right way, I did it mainly the discreet way, perhaps too discreet. Up until today I kill myself from this regret and still try to get that oppurtinity back but my demands often if not always go unotice so I live my life unhappy and frustrated of being in a place I do not wish to be doing things I do not wish to do and thinking that now I would have been elsewhere doing something else if only I had acted differently. Your text helped me I have to admit but unhappiness and regrets seem to be undefeatable. They are strong and stronger than most other emotions. My kind regards and best wishes for your career.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com