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15 January, 2023
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“Life is a dream” – 2

 

Notice these lines from  Dostoevsky (1872-1881), “The dream of a ridiculous man” (1877):

 

“A dream!! What is a dream? And is it not our life but a dream? (…)
The consciousness of life is more important than life itself; knowledge of the laws of happiness is more important than happiness itself. This is what one has to deal with. And I will.”

 

“The consciousness of life is more important than life itself.”  It is a another way of saying the same thing as Shakespeare and Calderón (see previous entry): becoming aware of our own daily life is key in our existence.  The old adage from the Roman poet Horacio (65 a.C.- 8 a.C.) –“Carpe Diem” (Odas, I,11)– could be translated then as “becoming aware of the present moment.”

 

Then, I remembered the old English tune:

 

“Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the Stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a Dream.”

 

I have sung this tune many times to my son, when he was a baby, but only now I realise of its profound meaning: letting oneself go by Life (the river) merrily and smoothly.  Life is simply a dream…

 

Carpe Diem!!