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Friday, 14th April, 2006

ungrounded optimism
[posted at 06:26 GMT]    

My friend wrote in his small note today, after certain things happened yesterday, that the worst thing which can be is ungrounded optimism. It let me think a bit.
The exact things which happened yesterday could happen to everybody of us any time, but to count on thing like well-founded optimism, which I could call certainty doesn't exists. The optimism in its base is uncertain, I would say. But this feels like philosophizing too much. He wrote it based on reality which happened yesterday. Those facts turn around everything we were hoping for and we were welcoming to something which is not very nice and pleasant, but what is happening in every moment. It is not really important what was it, what I think is important is that these are the thing which one as artist should focus on. Things which touch everybody at certain moment.

By creating work which can help people to overcome such a difficult time or show that they are not alone in their state of mind. That I think is very important. Human as individual is very very alone. There are few things which can breaks those barriers and create connection between people. Art is one of them so why waste it for stupid things.