purpose Archives - Meandering home

Observation

What i am is also: world The world that was repelling me Or so i felt The world in which i had no say Not even about moving some of her smallest parts I feel embarrassed. So trivial my thoughts So puny my process. My time. I watch an ant that i don’t smash Walking ...

13 October, 2018

Kamiel Choi

ant, purpose, world

Poetry

We breathe calmly. The word purpose agitates. Propos, to 'put forth' says the etymology. We are familiar with a hierarchy of purposes. At the end of a curious child's inquisitive series of "why?" every adult will resort to "just because". The purpose of growing up is to contribute to society. The purpose of society is ...

26 August, 2018

Kamiel Choi

Aristotle, goal, intention, meditation, purpose

Philosophy

Meditation on purpose

We sit still with our eyes closed. In the distance, across the fields, are green hills. Alright, this is my concrete situation perhaps not yours. Never mind. The why-question or more precisely the what are we here for question is personally daunting. So much so, that we assume we can hardly help each other finding ...

8 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

fear, love, meaning, meditation, purpose

Philosophy, The good life

A dream in the office

they hover over their plastic faces to greet you and shake you with their immaculate prosthetics do not to disturb the raging polyps of trust you came here, dressed in a thin illusion to overdose your mind on fluorescent dayshifts to do jawflips for a crustaceous boss who wanks silently under his desk in the ...

20 December, 2017

Kamiel Choi

office, purpose

Poetry

The Virtue of Giving Up

In our culture people who "give up" anything but drugs, are considered losers. Why is that? The logic is as follows: [1] You conscientiously choose a task, and because we consider you a rational being, the task is to achieve a certain purpose; [2] You work hard on the task, and it goes more or ...

7 March, 2014

Kamiel Choi

ethics, give up, purpose, value, Virtue

Essays, Philosophy