DE Weekly: Demy, Love, & The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
In Existentialism, the past, present, and future are always in focus. Much of what the existentialist authors wrote about these three states of time emphasized their role in determining how our lives will turn out.
The past acts as the “givenness” of our life: a fixed period of time that has come and gone and that we cannot change. In this way, it is devoid of choices; there is nothing more we can do with the past.
DE Weekly: Time, Urgency, & the New Year
I sat down to think about what I wanted to write to kick off a new year, and it hit me: what a perfect opportunity to write about the new year itself. New years, new beginnings, new starts, new anythings all represent the core tenets of existentialism well.
When the new year approaches and the calendar finally turns, we tend to mull over the year that was and the year that will be. We ask ourselves, “How do I turn my ideas into actions, my freedom into good choices into meaning?”