Sense of life
Yesterday after I checked my Yahoo mail, I found a curious Question on the Yahoo main page: "Why have we been born if we will die anyway?" I didn't went over all the answers, but most of them were very simple. Some people say we were born just to adapt and reproduce, others say that we are here to grow spiritually; some people don't really have an answer.
But I think that's an important question and then we must take it seriously. Why have we been born if everything our life has been, is or will be will unavoidably become nothing? Can we have a good reason to live given that condition? Well, somebody would answer: "Why bother? Our life is the only thing we have, so the best we can do is enjoying it the most." I think that's the best answer indeed, but surely the people who apply it consistently to their lives are extremely rare. We spend a lot of time planning, worrying, regretting what we've done and what we've not... Trust me, it's very hard to change that and enjoy the very present moment as it is.
A little busy
I know it's hard to find a new post here frequently. That's not something I'm satisfied with, but I've got a lot of things to do this semester, so I find hard to update. This is just to tell you I'm still here. And I'm still trying to post more frequently. See you soon...
What to do
Sometimes it's interesting to think about the future because you usually learn a lot about your present. I talk about the future because I'm going to finish my major in Philosophy next year. It's time to choose the life I want to live.
This year I decided not to fix a definite plan; opportunities come without advice and a fix plan can make you lose them. Some of my potential opportunities is language learning. I find easy to start learning a foreign language (though it then comes harder and harder); it's not a bad idea to teach them: English, Japanese, Chinese... More and more people want to learn a second (or even third language), so the business is promising. Besides, the interest about learning Spanish (my mother tongue) as a foreign language is increasing; I would get job in my country or abroad. It sounds great!
Well somehow, but I don't want to dedicate all my life to that. I really wish to do some Philosophy some day. Don't think I'm pretencious: that's just something I can't help trying. The problem is that I'd like to develop study fields scarcely issued in Colombia: philosophy of religion and Japanese Philosophy. My only option is to try getting a scholarship to study religion in Japan. There are some good options, like Kyoto University. What I'm afraid of is that Japanese education is so demanding that I would probably not be admitted. Should I trust myself a little more? Well, you can't say till you try.
These are (just some of?) the cards I can play. I hope I can tell good news three or four years later. By now, one day at a time.
