Aesthete ka ba?

According to Soren Kierkegaard, there are 3 stages of existence: the AESTHETIC, ETHICAL and RELIGIOUS. But since I am far off from being religious and dyos ko, neither am I ethical, let me dwell this lecture on being an aesthete. Yes dir, lelektyuran ko talaga kamo. Pati sadiri ko. The aesthetic stage is a stage in which the individual is interested in pleaure and enjoyment. The aesthetic stage is not charactherized by the passionate engagement and personal commitment which are characteristics of the higher stages of existence. In this stage, we try to escape boredom as much as possible because we want to live in the pleasure of the moment. But…the pursuit of pleasure always results to despair because one’s life reduces to pleasure of the moment but the moment is so short that one’s life and indeed the individual becomes almost nothing. It talks of superficiality and shallowness that sometimes overwhelm us only because we want to have fun all the time. We tend to fail to reflect seriously upon the nature of one’s way of living because an aesthete’s life is defined by immediacy. Our SELF becomes entirely subjected to external factors thus tends to avoid commitments and boredom.

Unrefined immediacy or itong inaapod tang mga activities na characterized by immediate carvings for desire and satisfaction through enjoyments that do not require effort or personal cultivation. Alcohol, drugs, one-night stands, couch-potatoes and other self indulgent lifestyle are some examples of an aesthetic life.

Hmmm. Mayo lang. Nakaka-relate ako. 

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