Thursday, August 02, 2007

The Limitations of my Mind

Alas, a recent and unexpected discovery has weaken my resolution to push forward: it has suddenly dawned upon me that my mind -the workings of my brain- has deep limitations and that its scope is narrow. I have been suspecting this for long, very long, but I chose to look the other way, I chose to ignore the evidence. My brain's shortcomings are: an inability to grasp the meaning of time, the concept of beginning or end, nothingness, death and birth, the nature of happiness, the concepts of justice, love, friendship, memory... why go on? The list would be endless. And at this stage I despair of ever putting things right and learn... Too late. I have lost the sense of meaning of nearly everything. Fortunately others do not share my shortcomings...

2 comments:

Lorraine C. Ladish said...

I believe each of those things has the meaning that every one of us chooses to give it. And that it is never too late. Never.

delfin carbonell said...

Warning to my possible readers: Take my entries "cum grano salis", with a grain of salt... One never knows whether I am writing "pen" in cheek (Not bad this neologism, eh?)...