Day 9: Being Alone

The greatest mind has to bear the greatest solitude. Once you reached a deeper inside yourself then you would found you are alone, the essence for your existence is solitude. In the same way, to found yourself, you have to be alone so that you can have the "conversation" with yourself and walk into the wonderland. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Being alone is the way to have "conversation" with yourself. (photo source)

People who enjoy themselves and their loneliness because they have splendid inner worlds, even they were alone, they would be satisfied to face themselves and search the "wonderland" to gain the energy. While for the people who always trying to escape from themselves, they are frightened to see their empty inner worlds, they can't see the point, light and get the comforts from themselves, getting themselves lost...trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing them.

Day 7: (Continued Story) the Paradox

For the continued story of contradiction, this time I'd like to introduce you something more exciting, it's called--Paradox, which is more fascinating to me, and it leads to uncoordinated contradictions. So first we need to know the difference and connection between paradox and contradiction. Generally, a contradiction is a statement that contains more than one propositions which cannot be all true at the same time, the solution is you have to discard some of them. While paradox is a statement that can neither be true nor false for both of the situation would lead to contradictions and there is no solution to fix it.

Penrose Stairs. It never ends. (photo source)

By the explanation above, it is easy to see that the example in the former blog entry is a contradiction, because the announcement "I’m not going to post today" and the fact that "I posted it at last" (stated in another way) cannot be all true at the same time. There are also some similar contradictions stated as "I'm not typing on a computer", "I'm saying nothing", "The color of these words is red"...and so on.