ZOMBIE'S PHILOSOPHY

“Wir sind geboren um zu sterben” –Heidiger-, means: “We are born to die”.

Is mortality a reason to give up on “living”?

I mean, if we are dying anyway, why should we bother struggling with this evanescent life?

We should instead build our own graves and grunt in our tombs waiting for death and singing “I DON'T CARE!”

First, let's define “living”, and for that, I’ll quote from Descartes:
“I think than I exist”, and if you check the definition of "a human being" in a dictionary you'll find:

HUMAN BEING

n. “an animal with brain and pronator thumb”;

And allow me to add an important detail to this definition to make it: "an animal with a SAIN brain...", and that's because some people suffer from what I call a "lazy-brain syndrom", and those creatures thus belong to the non-living category which I call "the zombies".

And the "lazy-brain syndrom" is a chronic disease that hits mostly young men and women:

CLINICAL SYMPTOMS:

*taking everything for granted

*blaming divine will and invisible forces for one's mistakes

*taking the majority's side just because they are the majority

*debates phobia because it's a waste of energy and time

*believing that one's path is already drawn and that "change" is only a dream

*not believing in dreams

*laughing when one hears a kid saying he wants to become an astronaut... ect

TREATMENT:

Brainsectomy

PRONOSTIC:

Dark

PS: Placebo has shown remarkable results but with a major side effect: having a vegetative life, which some patients didn't mind.

This disease has unfortunately become an epidemy and the WHO (Word Human-and not Health- Organization) is trying so hard to fight it by distributing philosophic books and organizing debates.

Now let's go back to our subject, what was I saying?

Yeah, that "living"-which we've just defined- is a lost cause, and that life is just a journey and we will all rock in the bloody hell eventually (or not :p ).

Which leaves us with the question: so how are we going to spend this evanescent life?

Since no matter what we do, we'll end up dead, it doesn't really matter how we spend our lives, does it?

So we roam, we meet people, we lose people between the corners of life's path, "each new friendship is the beginning of a separation"-Chinese proverb-, we make mistakes, lots of them, we affect other people's lives and somehow, in a way or another, we end up by making a "change", unintentionally...oups!

CHANGE
n. from "changing": replacing a state with another like changing directions and changing coulors, gives a meaning to life.

Now, if a roaming zombie who's suffering from "lazy-brain syndrom" could make a change, than YOU certainly CAN make a change too!

So take a leap, take your chance to make a choice and leave an immortal print in this evanescent life behind you.

Just THINK!

By Hager GABSSI (DCEM2)