lone•ly adj. (lone•lier, lone•li•est) 1 unhappy because you have no friends or people to talk to: She lives alone and often feels lonely. As I didn’t speak the language I grew lonelier and lonelier. 2 (of a situation or period of time) sad and spent alone: all those lonely nights at home watching TV 3 [only before noun] (of places) where only a few people ever come or visit isolated: a lonely beach note at alone
lone•li•ness noun [U]: a period of loneliness in his life
The one peculiar thing about loneliness is that, you don't have to be alone to be lonely.
Or is that just melancholy?
Necessity
ne•ces•sity noun
1 [U] ~ (for sth)| ~ (of sth / of doing sth)| ~ (to do sth) the fact that sth must happen or be done; the need for sth: We recognize the necessity for a written agreement.
2 [C] a thing that you must have and cannot manage without.
3 [C, usually sing.] a situation that must happen and that cannot be avoided.
The more we look around, the less necessity we found.
Mortality might be one.
Everybody can be anything.
1 [U] ~ (for sth)| ~ (of sth / of doing sth)| ~ (to do sth) the fact that sth must happen or be done; the need for sth: We recognize the necessity for a written agreement.
2 [C] a thing that you must have and cannot manage without.
3 [C, usually sing.] a situation that must happen and that cannot be avoided.
The more we look around, the less necessity we found.
Mortality might be one.
Everybody can be anything.
Writer
writer noun
1 a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc.: writers of poetry a travel / cookery, etc. writer
2 a person who has written a particular thing: the writer of this letter
3 (with an adjective) a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing: a messy writer
Writers are all liars.
As Haruki Murakami rightly said in his Jerusalem Prize speech, it's the novelists' job to tell lies. By telling lies novelists "bring truth out to a new location and shine a new light on it".
I think it's the same for all writers other than novelists.
Writers write many different kinds of things. With words writers create a reality of ideas and emotions.
Writers create, instead of representing things truthfully.
The reality writers created belongs no more to its maker. Writers can no longer manipulate what's been written, and are no longer responsible for its interpretation.
Liars will never interpret nor explain the lies told; writers do not dissect the reality created.
1 a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc.: writers of poetry a travel / cookery, etc. writer
2 a person who has written a particular thing: the writer of this letter
3 (with an adjective) a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing: a messy writer
Writers are all liars.
As Haruki Murakami rightly said in his Jerusalem Prize speech, it's the novelists' job to tell lies. By telling lies novelists "bring truth out to a new location and shine a new light on it".
I think it's the same for all writers other than novelists.
Writers write many different kinds of things. With words writers create a reality of ideas and emotions.
Writers create, instead of representing things truthfully.
The reality writers created belongs no more to its maker. Writers can no longer manipulate what's been written, and are no longer responsible for its interpretation.
Liars will never interpret nor explain the lies told; writers do not dissect the reality created.
When I studied in the university, my supervisor always asked me to explain the things I had written. He either had no time to even glance through my works, or they're really badly written. I guess it happens all the time in that kind of setting, not only me, go ask every philosophy student.
But now we have this thing called Internet. We write in blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and commenting on others' writings all over different places.
I enjoy writing in these places, or else you won't be reading this.But I must tell you again, that writers are liars.
Whenever people get serious about my writings, it becomes so unbearably nauseous. I feel like I am about to be forced to dissect the lies I told.Most importantly, whenever people get serious with my writing, they almost always don't get what I have written.
Writers are all liars.
Metaphor
meta•phor
noun [C, U] a word or phrase used to describe sb/sth else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful.
"Metaphors are dangerous," Milan Kundera wrote in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Metaphor gives you a more colourful exposition of certain qualities in things, it helps you understand things better by analogy.
But why metaphors are dangerous?
Tomas fell in love with Tereza because he had found her like a baby sent downstream to him in a bulrush basket.
Metaphor works by abstracting the similarity between two things. In a metaphor, the things compared cease to be themselves. We're left with the similarity.
Tomas followed what every human would do seeing a bulrush basket floating downstream with a baby in it: he picked the baby up and brought her up. The metaphor carries the necessity of the conscience of "saving the innocent and helpless". Yet, it might not be so between Tomas and Tereza. Tereza came up in Tomas' life just like a baby floating downstream in a bulrush basket, but there was no necessity for Tomas to fall in love with her, like every other romantic relationships.
Self-help and self-motivation books are popular these years. They tell you what you should do by thousands of metaphors. Readers chew on these user manuals of life and get high on the comfort these metaphors offered.
Choices in life are however particular. Generalised and abstract direction or inspiration just won't solve the puzzles in life. Maybe that's why they said self-help makes you feel worse, spood-feeding generic answers just won't cut it.
Metaphors are safe for helping one to grasp a thing otherwise difficult to understand, but could be dangerous when we're talking about choices in life.
noun [C, U] a word or phrase used to describe sb/sth else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful.
"Metaphors are dangerous," Milan Kundera wrote in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Metaphor gives you a more colourful exposition of certain qualities in things, it helps you understand things better by analogy.
But why metaphors are dangerous?
Tomas fell in love with Tereza because he had found her like a baby sent downstream to him in a bulrush basket.
Metaphor works by abstracting the similarity between two things. In a metaphor, the things compared cease to be themselves. We're left with the similarity.
Tomas followed what every human would do seeing a bulrush basket floating downstream with a baby in it: he picked the baby up and brought her up. The metaphor carries the necessity of the conscience of "saving the innocent and helpless". Yet, it might not be so between Tomas and Tereza. Tereza came up in Tomas' life just like a baby floating downstream in a bulrush basket, but there was no necessity for Tomas to fall in love with her, like every other romantic relationships.
Self-help and self-motivation books are popular these years. They tell you what you should do by thousands of metaphors. Readers chew on these user manuals of life and get high on the comfort these metaphors offered.
Choices in life are however particular. Generalised and abstract direction or inspiration just won't solve the puzzles in life. Maybe that's why they said self-help makes you feel worse, spood-feeding generic answers just won't cut it.
Metaphors are safe for helping one to grasp a thing otherwise difficult to understand, but could be dangerous when we're talking about choices in life.
