The Lightness is Unbearable

The absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant - Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

I fell in love again with Milan Kundera and his writings in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. As the ideas grow, I find the writings are more bearable than they were three years back when I first read the book. But now, I am less interested to discuss Kundera as a person and the book as a book. Only the ideas contained in the book get me to the heightened state of interest.

May be the ideas of burden or responsibility has been in many literatures and probably in all the scriptures but these fanciful ideas of weight and technically flying because of the lightness are new to me

To compare weightlessness and the being is technically extreme. People talk about emptiness and soullessness when describing the inner being but to say that without the burden, we are physically weightless is strong and strikes ten point.

I believe what Kundera said, he is talking sense and what he said is making more sense as I grow. We all need the burden to at least put some weight to our being and thus help us to remain standing on our two feet.

I am not going to be too obvious here but I guess if you are the stubborn kids who want to defy the conventional wisdom and toy with many ideas of life will somehow came to the state where you believe that freedom to live and to believe sounds worth fighting for. And I guess, some have indefinitely subscribed the notions of total freedom already.

Freedom that frees us from the burden that we thought as ‘burden’ per say but in actuality is another weight to put structure into our lives. I think I’d like to believe that. I think I ought to believe that the structure, the burden, is necessary.

I might sound like a losing fighter of freedom but I guess the process of discovering and the process of handpicking ideas and ideologies is freedom.