... what modern man calls 'emptiness'
every time i went to the fields i returned disappointed without understanding the cause of my disappointment.
every time i looked at the gray sky i felt my heart contract.
every time i heard the singing of the birds and babbling of the spring i suffered without understanding the reason for my suffering.
it is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree.
it may be true among those who were born dead and who exist like frozen corpses;
but the sensitive boy who feels much and knows little is the most unfortunate creature under the sun, because he is torn by two forces.
the first force elevates him and shows him the beauty of existence through a cloud of dreams;
the second ties him down to the earth and fills his eyes with dust and overpowers him with fears and darkness
~ kahlil gibran
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