I ask of you to not judge me after reading this post.

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Question and Answer
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Question: Why are relationships of any nature seemingly doomed to failure? Why does nothing last?
Ans: Because ultimate loneliness is found in one's mind, in one's memory. For in memory, no two person share a common emotion, a common remembrance, a common narrative. Even in recalling the same, the disparate memories slide past. Memories are riddled with gaps, fissures, wounds. No two person can ever share a common history, a common memory.
Ans: Memory fades with the passage of time; it is as corruptible as any material object.
Ans: Because expectations are lost in the sea of translation.
Ans: Because everyone lies about their affections
Ans: Because human beings are the real selfish bastards that they are and all they're interested in is receiving.
Ans: Because humans are inconstant as the moon.
Ans: Because humans 'love' on the basis of need. When the need is over, the 'love' ends.
Ans: Because life is impermanence. Because we all move on.
Ans: Because we have no idea what love really is as much as we think we do...
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Question: Why do people remember one only when that someone is gone? Why do they love only when it is lost?
Ans: Because humans are creatures of regret and waste.
Ans: Because humans never value the things and people they have till it's lost.
Ans: Because humans live in the past and in the future but never the present.
Ans: Because humans need lessons of loss to embrace the present.
Ans: Because we all believe we are immortals and subscribe to the delusion that there is always time.
Ans: Because eternity is a lie...

Nostalgia
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"During the twenty years of Odysseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus did suffer nostalgia, and remembered almost nothing. We can comprehend this curious contradiction if we realise that for memory to function well, it needs constant practice: if recollections are not evoked again and again, in conversations with friends, they go. Emigres gathered together in compatriot colonies keep retelling to the point of nausea the same stories, which thereby become unforgettable. But people who do not spend time with their compatriots, like Irena and Odysseus, are inevitably stricken with amnesia. The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes. The more Odysseus languished, the more he forgot. For nostalgia does not heighten memory's activity, it does not awaken reollections; it suffices, unto its own feelings, so fully absorbed is it by its suffering and nothing else."

~ Milan Kundera, "Ignorance"

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Some random snippets, from somewhere, which really intrigued me and got me thinking. I espcially liked the one on nostalgia. Gives a whole new meaning to the role of friends.

Holy. Feels like doing literature again.