Big question

What are immortality and eternal beauty worth?
As I was reading the book I kept asking myself what it would have been worth, would I want to know when life would end? Or not end at all?
Trade my soul, what makes me, for beauty and immortality? Would I want to lose all emotions, all the parts that forms my personality?
What would be left? An empty body with nothing to offer except a pretty face, a mask that covers nothing, a dark empty space.
What would life be like if everyone was like this?

Dorian Gray sells his soul for exactly these things. Personally I would never want a life with no end, because it is a part of life, of being human. The excitement disappears, the actual feeling that makes every moment worth living for the fullest. In one of my earlier posts I was talking about carpe diem, how you have to grap life and every opportunity as they come, cause you might end up not being able to do any of those things later. I would much rather not know when I would die, because the unknown and mysterious part about life is exactly this, and that is why nothing will go by without giving you a taste of it first.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” 
And that is the inspirational quote of today, I am Chris Krohn, and if I had the authority to; I would approve this message.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a poem with imagination, examples are people being possessed by evil, death playing dice with lady nightmare and the spirit from the land of mist and snow, who did not appreciate the killing of the albatross.The poem explores the violation of nature as they kill the albatross and the fate of the crew is being resulted in death for everyone except the Mariner.




He lives to tell the tale, and to guide other men in the direction of doing right and not wrong. Individualism is to find in the poem as the Mariner is chosen to be an example of what can happen if you "mess" with mother nature and it's creatures. The typical progression of a romantic poem describes the journey of the "Hero" as he goes from being unaware, to a sort of sad wisdom, often accelerated by supernatural events or characters.

The picture of Dorian Gray

In the first two chapters of the book they have been talking about the good looks of  Dorian Gray. The blue eyes, golden hair, and his essence of beauty. So far it hasn't been a lot of story, only the talk between Lord Henry and Basil, the painter. Dorian wants Lord Henry to stay, because he is bored while hes being painted. Basil insists that he does, but recommend Dorian to ignore what Harry has to say because he is usually bad influence on his friends, except himself. As a respond Lord Henry says: To influence someone is to give him one's soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, nor burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him, and his sins, if such exsists, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him"

And that is also the inspirational message for today.

Love peeps, Chris Krohn!