Happy science

1. A sentence should not be longer than a few words
2. It should also never exceed your own expectations or ambitions
3. Walking too far you will lose your goal
4. You will end up unsatisfied and exhausted at the end of your journey
5. Wondering if that was the meaning and purpose of life
6. Devoting ourselves to a higher cause
7. Like getting married, finding a productive job, or joining the army
8. Or even abolishing what is commonly considered right or wrong
9. Forcing ourselves to become philosophers or writers
10. Perhaps we could succeed and become famous
11. But deep inside we would feel that something went wrong
12. Think for example that you are writing a poem while listening to a song
13. As you focus on what you are writing you forget the song
14. You then focus on the song but you cannot keep on writing
15. Finally you find yourself writing a poem while listening to a song-
16. You just enjoy yourself while you are doing nothing.

12/10/2019

Image: From ‘The Gay Science,’ Friedrich Nietzsche

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