Courtesy of my Grandmother

In the beginning and ending of my video, I use quotes from Voltaire’s novel “Candide” (aka “Optimism”). In it, Voltaire sought to point out the fallacy of Leibniz’s theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the resulting inaction toward the evils of the world. Leibniz, a German philosopher and mathematician of Voltaire’s time, developed the idea that the world they were living in at that time was “the best of all possible worlds.” This systematic optimism shown by Leibniz is the philosophical system that believed everything already was for the best, no matter how terrible it seemed. To get his point across in Candide, Voltaire created the character Dr. Pangloss, an unconditional follower of Leibniz’s philosophy… 

Since the disease of my grandmother, 16 years ago until now, these metaphysic questions about existence “to come to existence or being, does it mean to be alive?” (…) became more persistent in the sense of trying to find answers for some situations that I consider unfair. And not only in the realistic matter but also in the mystic part that transcends us all, and for which we can’t find explanations for.

And one of the things that overwhelms me the most is how one person can live an entire life and then suffer during endless years. 

 Is it necessary to persist, to maintain a human being alive, when has no longer the capacity to live? Are things truly necessary in the course of nature? Is that faith? what can you do against the natural consequences of living?