Muss Est Sein, jajajaja

Some of you might be wondering what the title or the name of the blog is about. I was reading "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera (a very enjoyable read, highly recommended!). One of the motifs in the book was "Es Muss Sein?" which is "Must It Be?" in German. They were the last few notes of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16 Opus 135. At first, it was written more as a joke in another piece when Beethoven was asking one of his aquaintances for money - "jajajaja, Muss Est Sein", which is "yes yes yes yes, It Must Be [out of your purse!]". It recurrently appeared in his later pieces more as an expression of an uneasy, difficult resolution made with considerably weight. I used this name as the name of my blog simply because this theme - as it has troubled a lot of people in present and past - is one of the questions that I have repeatedly asked myself. Must it be? Must your life be this way? Is it a chain of coincidences, which might have inadvertently deillusioned you into thinking that it is destiny? Rather, is there destiny? Is there a weight, a burden of which we are obligated to carry throughout our lives? Is there a way to escape this fate? Must it be?

That said, this blog isn't all about life altering matters (that would in fact be quite boring). I will also write about my findings in art, music, books, and anything interested to me.