Personal faith

Formal religion was always on my blind side: most of this is due to my socialist-atheist upbringing, and also to the fact that there isn’t any proof of whatever religions are talking about. However, I always believed that the human spirit is limited, that human progress is happening within pre-defined boundaries, and thus there are things that aren’t given to the human spirit to know, therefore, we shouldn’t write/think/contemplate such things. I believe that this is faith, at its core.

Yet another theory

E.H.Erikson divided life into eight linear and chronological phases, with the final, eighth phase being the most important, when one’s summarizing his or her life. Poles in that phase are Despair and Integrity. If the man in this phase is leaning towards Integrity, he can say that he didn’t live in vain. I’d like to see those who are well-adjusted while dying, unless they’re some kind of fanatics.