Seems so important at the time. Did you wonder if any of it will matter at the end?
Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or, "A" says that whatever you choose, you'll end up regretting it either way. Either/Or. Should life be lived on impulse, whatever makes you happy at the moment, or does one commit, with only one purpose in mind, to become oneself, which is what "B" believes. Does becoming oneself supposedly make you a better person, rather than running around like a jolly fool?
Would I be so bad as to say that I agree with "A"? Is choosing happiness over identity, wrong? Or perhaps that is my identity, in which I commit no wrong at all.
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To avoid making a choice, is a choice in itself. |