Almost a year since I last wrote in this blog.
A lot happened in *almost* a year. I quit my job at Ogilvy to pursue the adventure side of me (baca: mau liburan panjang) and went to Europe for almost 2 month.
I WENT TO ICELAND! ICE-FREAKING-LAND.
The land of fire and ice is super awesome, but I'll explain later in another post, I think.
Now, I'm currently reading a book by Andrew Shaffer. A comedian writer in New York Post. His book; Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love is a compiled short stories of many renowned philosophers in the world, like Albert Camus, Simone du Beauvoir, Peter Abelard, Aristotle, etc, who apparently had something in common, which is failed, miserably, at love.
Shaffer retold the stories on his own witty way and give me a funny point of view, on how these great philosophers suffer their way through love. Well, mostly they were just admit infidelity or just have A LOT of affairs, with both man or woman. *yes, I'm looking at you Beauvoir*
I dunno, I think, for me personally, it just feel nice to know that the great minds who shaped our modern way of thinking of everything that matter in life, were in fact, also failed in this mystery called love.
There were also a lot of quote from this philosophers. I'm still on Auguste Comte chapter, but I found these few beautiful and thoughtful quotes;
"Blessed are the hearts that can be bend; they shalt never be broken." - Albert Camus.I just think that was beautiful and very well said.
another one came from Nicolas Chamfort:
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| "The world either breaks or hardens the heart." |
I dunno, well, I'm not expert on love nor wise because literally: the word "philosophy" comes from the ancient Greek word philosophia, a composite of philein ("to love") and sophia ("wisdom)) - taken from the footnote number 1 on the book. However, I just think that Chamfort is very black-and-white person regarding love matter. Well, maybe because he used to be "Hercules" in bed- *seriously, at once I though Shaffer was kidding, but then I google it and it was true about Chamfort's famous stamina in bedroom, hence the name* -then he got some *venereal* disease that, I quote from the book, "disfigured his genitals". Well, ladies and gentlemen, true story from hero to zero, no wonder the way he was thinking was very black and white.
For that, I kinda disagree. I still believe, that somewhere, a bunch of people who have their hearts broken into million pieces can still hopelessly looking and believing in a thing called love without being cold or have their hearts harden. Because without it, I think we'll become robots, without warmly heart just pure cold logic... and I think I don't like that.
OR MAYBE I DO!
I mean ROBOT! are you kidding me????!!
Robot is awesome!
Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger. The only time he was cool *at least to me* is when he was in Terminator.
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Hasta la vista, bitches,
-c.
