In response to: http://bugsxbirds.wordpress.com/

“Thank you for reading, Ka!
I do understand after reading my own work over that I found a better way to say it. We do get this closure that helps us deal with our past situations, and then we are able to move on. Being able to move on is the part that brings a sense of relief, that we are not in pain anymore and that we have come from it stronger. Happiness and relief are not the same, but I think that the relief gives us some little release we need after bad or stressful situations. After that kind of bad experience, we are almost more alive than we were before. In regards to my own commitment with school, I choose to do life while doing school so that when I’m older, I can experience the rest of my life exploring what life has to offer. Life has too much to offer, and it’s easy to forget that life isn’t only what’s happening right now, it’s what can happen. Camus does bring up some questions about what we find to be good and bad, but I think that his views on life should be yours to decide and venture through, by yourself or with a future family.

Best wishes to you Ka! Thank you so much again!”

In response to: uncomfortablyalone.wordpress.com

“I agree. The point of the pain should be that we got through it and we are moving on stronger, but the focus on fetishized pain is an eternal pain where nothing is gained and you constantly lose. It makes for an unhealthy headspace, usually resulting in all bad things after and during, not letting any of that pain go. That in general is a sad way of living, edge or not, try to find closure and chill a little, it’s the past, know what I mean? Conveying emotions in art is fine with pain, but the quality of art shouldn’t only be about that suffering.”

In response to: http://miaedavila.wordpress.com/

“I think that I would relive my life because I love who I am now. I couldn’t love myself as I am without loving the journey that brought me to this point in my life. It almost sounds like one of those “the end justifies the means” in relation to life, but I would happily jump back into every shitty thing that has happened to me to feel this happy and complete again. Even through the bits of life that hurt us, getting through them makes it more of an accomplishment for once you move on. Even if social media can only show me the good that comes from life, you always know there is some road that lead to where you and everyone else is now in their lives.

In relation to your question, after some thought, I think it would be the same life we are living now, over and over again, for the first time. The whole question is theoretical, but if you need to relive it knowingly, it puts less value on living. We know our values from the question, would you want to live again if it was all the same? It makes us think about what we cherish in life and what we think is important, lack of values bring us to a much grayer life, less enthusiastic and more detachment from it, in my own thoughts.”

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