First step is to make sure that he who dies, dies not in vain, Second to make sure that he who screams, screams not in pain, Third that the tears which come unbidden are those of joy and sorrow casts not a shade on our ephemeral existence, Fourth that we laugh honestly at least once a day and […]
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How to Assign Meaning to a Meaningless World
Posted: 4th July 2015 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: art, define, dies, emotions, end, fourth, glory, joy, meaning, meaningless, mind, music, screams, selves, sorrow, souls, stars, third, universe
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Words and the Allure of Languages
Posted: 22nd May 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: allure, caveman, complex, define, dream, envy, etymology, everything, expression, figment, fuzzy, happy, hieroglyph, hollowness, inert, knowledge, languages, life, live, love, manifest, mankind, nothing, reader, sad, sadness, salute, semiconscious, symbols, waking, warm, words
When you think about the etymology of words don’t you wonder how words for emotions and more complex phenomenon evolved? I often wonder who coined the term ‘Happy’ or its predecessors in various languages. I would have loved to have been present there to experience the indefinable joy of knowing what to call that warm […]