Monday, July 15, 2019

Flash - Introduction

I played in a couple of small chess tournaments over the weekend and had a fun time with below average results but each game was a rich tapestry of desire fused with logic. I don't plan on playing many more tournaments and would like to spend the rest of my free days preparing for death. For months I have been undecided on how I would like to go about this, this preparation for the most mysterious and fearsome transition. Tonight as I was reading Sartre's The Reprieve, it occurred to me that I could prepare for death by writing about my life, it won't so much be an autobiography as a collection of moments which would most likely flash before my mind's eye during my final moments on earth. I decided that an appropriate title for this would be Flash, and I will write segments of which the duration is 1 year's time. I will thus have 53 Flash entries. The goal is that by the time I finish writing the 53rd entry I will have come to some conclusions about my life and that somehow this will help me prepare for death.