Thursday, November 23, 2006
Misery
Misery is bourne from an encounter between neurosis and revelation. If revelation does indeed peel away illusions, the neurotic individual, ill-equipped to deal with the "truth", comes to grief, submits to emotional extortion, and indulges in misery. Misery functions as an omnipresent and easily accessible excuse; an infinite postponement of the essential confrontation between man and his inadequecies. Therefore, a disjointed indulgence of misery rationalizes the rejection of human frailty and facilitates unrequited longing for the impossible dream of human perfection. Persistent lamentations about loss and failure distracts from the challenges and contingencies of life and, hence, sustain the image of the impossible - an image that comforts the weak irresolute conscience of the chronic procrastinator, who awaits for an absolute absolution of imperfect, ephemeral existence.