Happy Monday!
Quick read
What makes life worth living by Karl Ove Knausgaard
What makes life worth living?
No child asks itself that question. To children life is self-evident.
Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference.
This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.
Not until that happens, until a distance appears between what they are and what the world is, does the question arise: what makes life worth living?
Visual
Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean
Fact
Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful.
This day in history
218 years ago today, on July 11th 1804, in one of the most famous duels in American history, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shot his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of America’s political economy, died the following day.
Tune
Quote
"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” // Deepak Chopra
Something to ponder
It's much easier to figure out how to live once you have figured out why to live.
Honorable Mentions
Personal update
Figuring out how to live.
In the meantime, being happy for no reason.
Until next week,