Posted by Linda
I was thinking about the concept of Sehnsucht as longing and longing as sadness. I think longing also carries in it a known happy experience so powerful that we hope (even against hope) to regain it. I don’t think humans long for something not real and not already experienced. We might like the [...]
Posted by Mike
I don’t like the image nor the use in the advertisement: “One Shot: Make it Count.“ The local personal injury lawyer with signs plastered all over our area is trying to scare injury victims his way. But I was thinking about his advertisement and the notion behind it while I was driving to [...]
Posted by Mike
Linda and Barbara were talking about buying a gift for someone,and I interjected the comment, “Life is a quid pro quo.” They were taking about relationships and the issue of giving and receiving was relevant to the context. What I meant was that in relationships we give something and we get something. In [...]
Posted by David
“Life is quid pro quo.” Is that really the way life is? I hope not. Most people take life to be that way. They expect outwardly and inwardly that if they do their part, they will get the other side of reciprocation. Is life just a series of subtle and not-so-subtle contractual engagements? I [...]
Posted by Mike
Wikipedia defines “sehnsucht” as meaning “longing or intensely missing,” but goes on to state that the term is “almost impossible to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state…similar to the Portuguese word, saudade.” And that “It is one of those quasi-mystical terms in German for which there is no satisfactory corresponding term in [...]
