People are always shouting that they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life eager to irritate us provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy a repaint that the only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. When we're children, we're usually quite idealistic. And then things happen.
And we're hurt, frustrated, disappointment, disappointed, feel betrayed. And our mind acts in a way that says, Wow, that was really humiliating, that was really challenging. I'm never gonna let that happen again, you know, I felt alone and there was no one there to protect me. I have to become rich and powerful and sexy and strong so that I can, you know, not so I don't have to go through and endured that humiliation Pain, disappointment, betrayal, abandonment, suffering again. So this quote by Kundera is so accurate because a lot of and I say, we become what we love when we become a we hate and both are inauthentic because things happen to us. And then they spin us off on to this.
What I'm going to say is usually a misguided trajectory, and we become something as a reaction to a top, a humiliation or a fear. So Kadar Kundera raises consciousness about this by saying the future is actually a void and what you're trying to do by becoming rich or having sex with 1400 women or doing whatever you're doing whatever absurd goal is in your mind, you're trying to repaint or remake your childhood, your past. So it's a very beautiful way of showing how people are inauthentic. Like, if you grew up poor and say, I need to grow, be rich as an adult, you know, I don't think that that's the most empowering way to envision it. It's really about, you know, freedom or, you know, there's a lot of ways of looking at things. And if you're just being a direct or direct reaction if you got beat up and schoolyard, and so now you're, you're a weightlifter or have a gone or whatever you do to compensate for that lack that you felt when you were six.
You're not living in the present moment. You're trying to remake your past. I'm not convinced that that's the most efficacious use of your time on planet Earth.