Tag Archives: Existentialism

A Cure for our Fear of Death

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Mike

In Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris”, the protagonist complaints  that he doesn’t know whether he should marry his fiancee, and whether he loves her at all. The reply he gets from a fictional Ernest Hemingway contains the most brilliant lines in … Continue reading →

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Birthday Neurosis

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Mike

Birthday has always been a sad business for me. Surely you get to feel ‘special’, you get greetings and presents, your friends come to your party – all those nice traditions we grew with, lift your spirit. But something inside … Continue reading →

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How I Have Come to Face Freedom

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Mike

Lately I have been thinking about the burden of freedom. What I mean by freedom is not the civil freedom of being out of jail, but an existential freedom: freedom from unfulfilled desires, from debilitating illness, from time-consuming commitments, from … Continue reading →

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