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We'll be analyzing a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre, he allegedly said once
“That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.”
What's ol JP up to here? Draining one's own self dry? So like applying yourself, right? Giving all your time and energy and attention to something. Putting your all into an endeavor until there's nothing left. Everyone's felt that, right? Or a time you tried harder than you thought you could? Maybe you had a liminal experience and things you used to think didn't matter as much. Your priorities changed in a moment of clarity.
But then what's he saying in the second half "without the sense of thirst." So to exist is not just to give your all but to be so caught up in it that you wouldn't bother with a biological need. Normally, in a survival mindset or going about your regular life, you have all these checks and regulators on the machine of your body. But to really exist, to really do the thing, you have to have a purpose greater than that. It's like a test to be overcome. You can't just give yourself over to anything willy-nilly. It's got to move you in a way that is greater than survival. You're not just a chain in a biological process you're a thing that exists and is doing something.
That's all I got.
If you want to exist I suggest you write a letter to your past self and cut out the individual letters and wait for it to rain and stomp around in the slush until you make a big mud puddle and scatter the letters in the mud and watch them swirl and wilt and disappear into the slushed earth and think I am the mashing maker of muck much mud mostly a morass of mottled missives. And then take off heading NORTH as fast as you can
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