Julie & Julia & Nietzsche

If you think about it, writing in English is very hard.
Especially, when you can’t write in Polish.

Yesterday I watched a nice/entertaining movie with my girlfriend. It was about people who found the true meaning in their life – the activity which brought them pleasure, money and fame. Both of them didn’t think about it as a way of living in the begining, but then it turned out that everybody has a talent, you just have to find it. Joy is everywhere, and even when problems show up there is this good forgiving/supporting husband (and probably wife) which will help you. Believe in yourself, believe in what you do – if you do it with passion, believe in Hollywood and believe in happy ending. And everything is based on a true story! Not on one, but on two true stories! The amount of hope, hapiness and motivation to change your life is just stunning. However, the movie ends and the three values also end. Why?

I think it has something to do with Nietzsche’s (Nietzsches? Nietzsches’) concept or “resentiment”. The fell of joy which comes to us temporary with a movie, feeling of compassion for a fellow being, strong urge to change your life… All of them are there, but just for a moment. This is how resentiment works, or how I understand it, it is a feeling that makes you a real person, but just for a short moment, bacause it is just a temporal flow of increased dopamine and probably endorphines. In order to change you life for real, to have the strength of a Hollywood character (and not his/her characteristics – which are simplified) you need something more than just a temporal flow of energy. Resentiment is an idea that makes you a happy couch potatoe, who sometimes thinks about his life during a movie/death of a relative etc. but does not change it. Even this text should create a feeling of the resentiment in you. Overcome it, kill it, embrace it and do not feel it! Use it.

I am on a second year of a PhD in sociology.
I am working for a second year as a youth psychologists.
I have 32 board games in my collection.
I love ideas.