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Existential Hunger

June 16, 2024

“Adam woke up suddenly, finding himself between cold walls. There was a crowd around him, with trembling bodies and dull stares. Where was this place? What was he doing here? He tried to piece together his memories, but all he found was a hazy void.

Confused, he looked around. People were wandering around as if they didn’t perceive his existence, lost in their own worlds. Adam felt a void filled with loneliness and alienation. He found himself in an unfamiliar place, in an unfamiliar situation.

Suddenly, a voice echoed: “Welcome, Adam.” The voice sounded familiar, but he couldn’t remember who it belonged to. When he turned to the direction of the voice, he saw a tall, slender man. The man continued with a slight smile: “There are many people like you here. We are all hunger artists.”

Adam remembered Kafka’s “Hunger Artist.” The situation he was in seemed to have jumped out of the pages of that story. But why was he here? What should he do?

The man continued: “Here, we not only practice the art of hunger, but also question our own existence. We are in search of meaning.”

Adam experienced an internal conflict with these explanations. Questioning himself? The art of hunger? What did this mean? Then, he noticed the expressions on the faces of the other people wandering around. Each of them seemed like a stranger in their own inner world.

After a while, Adam noticed someone approaching him. This time, the person was carrying a book. They handed the book to Adam and said: “This is for you. Perhaps the answers are hidden here.”

Adam looked at the book and saw the title “The Stranger” by Camus. He opened a random page and started reading the lines. He felt Meursault’s loneliness and meaninglessness. Maybe the answers were here, maybe it was accepting his own loneliness and alienation.

As time passed, Adam underwent an internal transformation. He made peace with his hunger and loneliness. Perhaps this was where true meaning lay. Perhaps this was the beginning of a real journey where he found himself and inner tranquility.

Adam was no longer a stranger in that crowd. He had found harmony within himself. And perhaps, the works of Kafka and Camus had guided him on this journey.”

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