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Why Love is an Existential Bummer

Why is that when we are in love we are nonetheless in mourning?
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Jason Silva nails it with his latest Shots of Awe video as he freestyles on Sigmund Freud’s 1915 essay “On Transience,” an essay inspired by Freud’s summertime conversations with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. 


Why is that when we are in love we are nonetheless in mourning?

Silva tackles this existential bummer in this moment of techno-rapture here:

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