"What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which it must go seeking and where all its equipment will avail to nothing. Seek? More then that: create. It is face to face with something which does not yet exist, to which it alone can give reality and substance, which it alone can bring into the light of day."
~ Marcel Proust
When I am working on honours research every once in a while I just get so amazed at what I, we, are doing. I feel so incompetent, and yet somehow so empowered to be doing this. Like I can discover the world, right down the the core of what IS and what BEING means. And life becomes so huge and special. And I feel like someone who is bumping around in the dark, with a map I can only read iBraillele, and I know that there is a wall to trail my fingers along just beside me, but I don't need to lean on it just yet, because what I am doing is trying to find out if there is another wall to follow on the other side of me. It is hard sometimes, worrying that I might trip, or fall down some pit invisible in the darkness, but that's what it's all about isn't it? To go where no one else has, not knowing what you'll find while you are on your way...
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