Here s your chance do you think someone s fucking gorgeous and want to
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thecockyphilosopher
HERE S YOUR CHANCE Do you think someone s fucking gorgeous and want to approach them but are shitting yourself that they may not feel the same way Sure there is the possibility of rejection but doesn t the reward justify the risk Why then do we hesitate so often when faced with the chance A couple of hundred years ago Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard came up with a reason why we let these opportunities pass when he was thinking about what gave life meaning His ideas were so powerful they started a whole field called Existentialism the philosophy of why we exist Kierkegaard wanted everyone to be aware that the clock is ticking The way we experience life one day after another seemingly forever gives the impression that there ll always be another time another chance but this is simply not the case Putting off making change because of the risk or the time it takes or because you put other things before yourself will inevitably mean one day no longer having that chance We think ourselves immortal especially in our youth and not realising our finite existence Kierkegaard claimed leads us to despair and regret when we discover we ve run out of time As the ancient Greek philosophers would say Memento Mori - to find meaning in life we must remember we will die Now don t get all morbid Kierkegaard didn t mean we should be infatuated with death but that the awareness of our mortality means we ll get the best out of life Knowing we are here for a fucking good time not a long time means to live with purpose and urgency Take the risk and ask out the person you desire or make the change you ve wanted because the chance won t always be there More important still do it fucking sooner than later because you ve only got a brief time in the world and you want to spend as much of it as the great Greek philosopher Aristotle would put it living life well And what s more important than enjoying life with someone you love