You have always looked upon the nephew as if he were your own son. You taught him maths when he was a kid and tried to share Schopenhauer 's ideas with him when he was a teenager.
You did your best to help him out in this planet of mayhem. Yet,I am sure, Senor Raul could easily cite many historical examples of the son turning on his own father.
The game is flawed.You should trust no one, not even the members of this board and yes,not even yours truly.
I would suggest you to have patience, and hopefully things would go back to normal in a couple of weeks.Please remember that you cannot save anyone. Its impossible.The most one can do is probably to share one’s hard won knowledge with the others ,which you have done already and beyond that there is not much you can do.
I know that your noble heart wishes to save as many lost souls as possible, but,I am sorry to say, it is a hopeless cause.
Those who question your mental stability are knaves.Whatever makes his think,his wife’s influence probably,among other things,that now he is a big-shot Teacher, well, I am sure,Life,itself will bring him down to the ground soon enough. You merely need to observe.
I have no doubt in my mind that you a great deal of offer as regards the elucidation of high school and undergraduate level mathematics.
My request to you is to continue to focus on mathematics and the concomitant programming,even if you go about it at a slower pace.
This episode was like a bad dream. I am sure I would have hurt you a great deal.I remember that you drew your nephew a number of times in your old journals and you had a soft corner for him and a great deal of affection but you see,I have a intuition that Schopenhauer was also quite emotional.That is what differentiates from some of the other determinists.
The sadness is an emotion which exist in the body and no mistake.
Every emotion has a certain amount of energy and just as you study prime numbers, they could also be studies by way of writing in the journal.
If I were in your place,I would say to myself, here is this kid whom I have cared for ,for close to four decades now and now he has turned against me, it hurts me a great deal, I feel diminished( I know that this might sound a bit mechanical but most of us,most of the time are little more than automatons).Once, I start doing that my mind, which was passive so far, looking at the grime scenario starts to become active… and that is when something strange happens.. a sort of calm comes over me. I begin to recognize the cause( my nephews arrival, his apparent ill-will towards me) , and the effect( my bewilderment and sadness).
The Buddhists often use the phrase “one inch gap”, please understand that I am not saying, that if I were in your place, I would have handled anything in better manner, if anything I would have fared far worse, what I am trying to say that is I try to keep one inch gap between my emotions and myself. The bad events still hit me hard. But it I could have that one inch of gap, then I can at least breathe. You sadness is not you.Just one of the thousands of persona within you.
Please take care and keep us posted.
I don’t like to see you like this, I like to see you, drinking strong coffee, doing math and coming up with the most mind bending ideas I have ever know.
You remind me of the mountaineer who lost both his legs while trying to climb the Evert. The day he was discharged from the hospital he began training again.And he finally did it.Saw this documentary as a kid many,many years ago.
Now, this video might look a big corny to you but it kind of makes me think of you:
Instead of Micky, its Schopenhauer who is asking you to get up-because Schopenhauer loves you-you are his German bulldozer!