The Beginning
This blog has been an idea (and an empty layout) for a long time.
Started even before we got married, me and my wife always wanted to share with the world our views on deep subjects, through the lens of our relationship, but not exclusively so.
But then, as they say, life got in the way. In beautiful ways, difficult ways, normal ways, abnormal ways. As for everyone, we guess (and we know, to a certain extent).
We were locked in the golden cage of Dubai for the better part of 5 years, and now finally we broke free. We can talk about that another time.
Now it's time to begin this blog.
I (the husband :P) don't know exactly what to start with, here. A manifesto is an option, a story is another option, an intro... So I will do a bit of everything, trying to be as concise as possible, because, as some of you may know, I tend to write and talk in very convoluted ways, and it usually ends up in rivers of words that become unmanageable...
The story goes, we moved to Moldova, my wife's country. And for some time, I will be blessed with... Time. To write, to think, to learn, and to do everything I've been neglecting while working as a flight attendant with her.
She might join the endeavor of writing here form time to time, but the writing freak is me, so you can expect me most of the time.
New home, new beginning, closer than ever to the families that we love, and closer to the lands that birthed us.
A bit of manifesto: this blog, as the title might suggest, is about two minds (me and my wife's), that are deeply convinced that "forever" is not just poetry. It's reality, it's unbreakable, and it's even normal. We said forever, and we didn't just "mean it". We acknowledged that it was the situation we delightfully fell into. Inescapable in the best possible way. It's a choice that is also inevitable. It's destiny that happens to also be choice. A lot can be written about how we see this, but it's not really important as part of the manifesto of this blog, it's more like an introduction.
The true manifesto is: we want to share what is it like to view the world from a perspective that doesn't subscribe to the nihilism, relativism, and cynicism of today's mainstream views, and most personal blogs. A perspective in which a few absolutes exist, and are there to stay.
Absolutes are feared like few other things in today's world, because they bring to mind the horrors of absolutism. But abhorring absolutism doesn't exclude acknowledging that some absolutes exist.
One of this absolutes, as mentioned, is the simple truth that we will be loving each other forever as husband and wife. There is no relativity in that, at all. As a reader you may argue on that, but you would be arguing with yourself, without really touching the reality.
Other absolutes are, for example, the inescapable results of logic, biology, and all other scientifically proven truths.
Strangely enough, with all its "unscientific-ness", God is another absolute. Although we don't identify as particularly religious people, or even as adhering exactly to one particular faith or confession, we both believe in God as some kind of unknowable (although at times very clearly understandable) absolute. Why? It's not a question, and that's exactly why it's an absolute. It's like the rules of a game: you don't question them, you either play by them or not.
This doesn't mean that you shouldn't read or question this if you don't agree with the rules: you are just watching the game, not playing it. But at least you know the rules we play by.
Ultimately, the only adjective we can both identify as is individualist. Our views borrow from too many fields, left and right (literally and figuratively), to be labelled or categorized in any way. We are conservative in the sense that we value what humanity produced and thought up until now, to the point that we want to preserve it from easy and quick dismissals, but we are progressive in the sense that we believe in progress of everything, from ideas to material things, from philosophy to industry, and in particular of our own selves.
We don't believe that conservative and progressive should be parties or factions: they should be concepts that complement each other, and any person foolish enough to borrow from just one of those pools, we consider precisely foolish.
We don't even coincide in views, me and my wife, and that's why we are ultimately just individualist: we believe every individual belongs only to its own unique category, including ourselves. People wanting to belong to some large group, just by virtue of ethnicity, religion, or anything else, are just looking for strength in numbers, but a strength that will most probably be used against them. We believe the future is associating by "like-mindedness" in single ideas, as in individuals that feel kinship and affinity. Not political parties and even less ideologies.
To conclude, here's a quote from a thinker that we consider "akin" to us, that I will quote risking association in terms of "alignment", "allegiance", "following", and all these despicable concepts, exactly because anyway I reject their very notion. It's a quote that could represent this blog in a deep fashion, at least where it's applicable.
"To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious there’s a mystery left there. The mystery is whatever God is. That mystery has the possibility of keeping you humble. You’re not the ultimate authority, and you’re accountable in some ultimate sense." - Jordan B. Peterson
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