misery week day two

schopenhauer said that people should greet other people as 'fellow sufferer' instead of saying things like 'how are you doing today?' or 'what's up?'

should just say, 'fellow sufferer'

schopenhauer was miserably unhappy and wrote very long philosophical works complaining about being and existence, humans, hegel, received phrases, noise, and other things

he died

schopenhauer said we should consider how horrible it is that one of the most effective ways to relieve misery and depression is to think of those more miserable and depressed than we are

schopenhauer was lonely beginning from a young age and i feel terrible thinking about his shitty eighty or whatever years sitting in his room feeling miserable, shitty, and lonely

after eighty years he died

think about buddhism

people who make it their goal to not have an identity, to not being a person, to not being alive, pretty much, to go against consciousness, yet somehow still feel something, feel what a tree might feel, assuming that trees feel things, doing all this in order to avoid suffering; and doing it without humor, sarcasm, irony, or possibility of reversal

seems serious and miserable

also, think about this:

people everywhere every day on TV, in books, in the newspaper, in literary magazines, in creative writing classes, in conversation praise all the miserable writers that have created beautiful art

every day there is new praise for whatever miserable writer who has created a beautifully miserable thing of art

now read again what i said about schopenhauer in the beginning of misery week day two:

schopenhauer said we should consider how horrible it is that one of the most effective ways to relieve misery and depression is to think of those more miserable and depressed than we are

this post is about good morning, midnight by jean rhys

today is tuesday

have a nice tuesday