What Would You Do For Love?
February 3rd, and bitter cold outside. The number of patrons increase, in the warmth here at Starbucks. I have no gut-feel of direction as to what to write; just awareness of being lost in a vast sea, for now, on the surface of an incomprehensible uncertainty. All that I know is important for my survival. All of it is becoming obsolete, useless by degree, as everything changes.
Perhaps it’s impossible to comprehend change, because every concept that we use is a frozen relic. Terms by common agreement that we’ve polished and polished….. Useful for communication, – but I am not convinced.
Everything changes. Can you think of anything at all that does not? A concept is understood in terms of it’s opposite…
Heraclitus of Ephesus observed – πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει “Everything changes and nothing remains.” One of the earliest philosophers of Greece 535 BC – 475 BC leaving us a phrase which still dumbfounds us. In my undergraduate years, I memorized the saying in Greek. Years have passed and I am gratified to remember the pronunciation of the Greek words.
I best accept my fate, a spec in the world, in a vast universe that is on the move… My wife Laura, is not the woman that I married, nor am I that clueless dream-chaser guy that she married.
I cannot get the war in Ukraine out of my mind, and I pray to whatever gods there may be, that Ukraine’s army withstand the Russian onslaught. War is slaughter. My prayer is brutal appeal for increase exponentially, to butcher Russians. Change can be lethal.
February the 14th is Valentine’s day.
To celebrate the occasion Laura and I anticipate keeping company at a restaurant new to us.
Is there anything I would not do for her? Probably not…
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
–excerpt Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche §153
This tune is my pick for a frigid Friday. A magnificent anthem by Meatloaf, I’d Do anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), lyrics by Jim Steinman.
