poem

Day 2850, nihilism.

Daily picture, Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Will to Power
Part 1. Nihilism

38 There has recently been a great deal of idle talk using a loose and altogether inapplicable term: pessimism. Everywhere the talk is about pessimism, and everywhere people (occasionally even sensible people!) are wrangling over a specific question which they think admits of an answer: whether optimism or pessimism is correct. What they do not understand, although it is palpable, is that pessimism is not a problem but a symptom, that the term should be replaced by nihilism, that the question of whether it is better to be or not to be, is itself an illness, a decline in strength, a kind of hypersensitivity. The pessimistic movement is only an expression of physiological décadence . . .

Day 2848, new keel.

Boat building, Daily picture

If you ever restored a wooden boat, you probably know what you see in these pictures and what it entails to change a heavily damage keel for a new one. If you don’t know what is going on, I would like to tell you, but not now; it will take a couple of hours because I don’t want to take shortcuts. You can, of course, become an apprentice boatbuilder for a couple of years and find it out yourself because reading about it or doing an internet search will not help you much. It’s like a metaphor for life and the many questions within; there are no shortcuts…

Day 2834, naked.

Daily picture, Poetry
ArticamazonKKF
We wake up in the morning of our life

naked, and you don’t mean anything to me; you are not there.

There is only me and an endless world inside 

and out there somewhere.



Then they take you, they tell you without words 

there are lines that divide.

You can’t even choose; your life is determined

like falling asleep. 



You sometimes, while you are standing, see these lines in the corner of your mind

of the puppeteer pulling on the loose hanging strings.

You almost started to forget your why. 



We all long to before those lines

to the other side.

To nowhere land, where we can play again

the puppeteer

and sit down 

naked.