7/3/2023 0 Comments Kochland goodreadsHaving realized this, I feel more compelled to continuously question myself and refine how I judge things. The world is a product of my judgements, of my imagination. It may be true, it may not, but if that’s what I believe and what I act on, does it matter if others think you’re nice? So all the people I know are, to me, only the ideas and opinions I have projected onto them. But does this mean that personal reality is all that exists? I may think you are a snobby person. We may have objective physical experiences but the stories we tell ourselves about them shape what we believe to be true and how we act in the future. But I find it ironic that despite feeling connected to another human being, instead of seeing the world as a place in which he interacts with others, the man sees only a projection of himself. I sympathize with this view I think reality is unique for each individual. He says it seemed that “…the world somehow depended on me now” (370). This connection stops him from immediately severing himself from the world entirely. Realizing he feels pity for another the little girl pulls the man back to reality, links him to society. “I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for any one when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom, as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself” (370).
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