Everything will be all right
by chuckofish
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
Søren-Kierkegaard-Statue im Garten der Königlichen Bibliothek in Kopenhagen.
I have been a big fan of Kierkegaard since I was in college and read:
“I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth’s orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.”
(Journal, 1836)
His writings about the authentic individual and his criticism of modern Christendom appealed to me.
Yes, he was an existentialist and a Christian. I could relate.
“It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.”
(Journal, 1847)
I think I’ll take a walk now. How about you?
dual personalities 
Oh, I love this post — especially that quote that first grabbed you. I can so relate! You introduced me to Kierkegaard — he is awesome and very much our type of guy. Thanks for the reminder.
I know! I just want to throw myself into Fear and Trembling etc. There is just so much to read!