Saturday, June 13, 2009

Lightness or weight?

" The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love of poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden the closer our lives come to the earth the more real and truthful they become.

Conversely the absence of burden causes man to be lighter than the air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, become only half real, his movements are free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or Lightness?" - Milan Kundera

It came to a point in my life where I crashed down so hard and everything that I've been holding on for the past 22 years of my life became utterly so insignificant and had lost it's meaning. I was lost in this nothingness. Where was I? I was swimming in strangeness and all I want to do was to let go all the things that cripple me. Again, I am now swimming against the current... Without this weight I will still feel nothing..