There has always been something unhealthy to me about drinking to get away from what one does for a living. It suggests that the person would rather be somewhere else doing something else and that their job is just seething their life with emotional havoc.
My belief is consistent with the writings of Schopenhauer. The world is suffering and art is humanity's way of creating a world the way we want it to be. We artists are priviliged because we get to live that perfect (nothing is perfect, but i think that imperfection sometimes implies a state of perfection)world every day.
We as artists also subscribe to an ideal advocated by Kierkegaard. He advocated that faith should be the one ideal that everyone lives for. While I disagree somwhat with that assertion, I very much like the idea of dedicating one's life to something that is so much bigger and better than themselves.
So yeah! Kudos to all that you are doing and what your cousin is doing. Yup:).
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Date: 2007-05-03 03:54 pm (UTC)My belief is consistent with the writings of Schopenhauer. The world is suffering and art is humanity's way of creating a world the way we want it to be. We artists are priviliged because we get to live that perfect (nothing is perfect, but i think that imperfection sometimes implies a state of perfection)world every day.
We as artists also subscribe to an ideal advocated by Kierkegaard. He advocated that faith should be the one ideal that everyone lives for. While I disagree somwhat with that assertion, I very much like the idea of dedicating one's life to something that is so much bigger and better than themselves.
So yeah! Kudos to all that you are doing and what your cousin is doing. Yup:).