Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The happy man does not look back. He doesn’t look ahead. He lives in the present.

But there’s the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The ways with happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning – the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life - a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.




Rubenfield, Jed; The interpretation of murder

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