Franz Kafka

This reading did not make sense at all to me. His statements were so vague that there could be many different interpretations behind each of them. There were some that were more confusing than others. One that stood out to me said,

“Not a drop overflows, and there is no room for a single drop more.”

I guess this statement is saying that add one more drop to whatever he is talking about and it will overflow with whatever it is filled with. I am just confused as to the point of saying this. What is someone supposed to gain or learn from hearing this? If anyone has any ideas I would like to hear them! There were some statements that I liked that really made me think. For example, I really like the one that said,

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”

When I first read this I thought that it meant that this “point” is something that could never actually be reached but that he was saying that we should always be pressing forward and reaching for things rather than simply settling for how things are. As I read it again, I started to think that maybe this “point” could be reached. Maybe it represents a change in our lives. I think what I am trying to say is that maybe the “point” is where we reach a certain level of “change” to where we will never be the same again (“the point of no return”). Maybe I am just thinking to hard about it. Either way, most of what he is saying in these statements are not very clear but are interesting to read and really had a way of getting me thinking.