Crasses et Voluptés

I like the way Camus put it in one of his notebooks when he scribbled in the margin, “Come to terms with death. Thereafter, anything is possible.”

…only go so far with managing death anxiety by sweeping it under the psychological rug. Ultimately, you got to bring it out and in the Kierdegaardian sense, enroll in the school of anxiety, which cannot be accomplished, as you know, without an incredible amount of anxiety and discomfort. Because to recognize that you are finite and not particularly pleased by that prospect is to momentarily divest yourself of all of the culturally and interpersonally constructed delusions and fantasy bonds that have sustained you for your whole life. And you can’t do that without momentarily –psychologically speaking– dangling on the precipice of oblivion. But then and only then can that real kernel of who and what you are begin to emerge and that’s when we’re going to see people, myself included, at their best.

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