Collect what matters

What I think I want to do today is to talk to you about the things which are of major interest to me. Now the origin of a person who is defined as a philosopher is one who that existence itself is exceedingly odd. I mean, we have an opposition between odd and even, and it would be even, let's say flattened out if nothing existed at all. I mean it would be so simple: no effort, no trouble, no nothing. But strangely enough, we have the strange conviction that something exists, that we're here, that we're real. And from earliest childhood that has been an extreme puzzle to me, that just something exists at all. And I discovered the nature of the puzzle. The nature of the puzzle is that I was