500 WORDS, DAY 2: As long as you wonder, you are a philosopher

This post is a continuation of yesterday’s post, which was the beginning of my new goal of posting 500 words a day. Today is day 2. If you want to start this topic from the beginning check out Day 1.

The thing is that these eternal questions, ideas and feelings, are so real for me that I have to explore them on my own time, in my own way. I don’t want to attend a college philosophy course, for the sake of becoming a philosopher and being recognized as one. I philosophize because it relates to who or what I am as a living being, to what I observe and think about during my day-to-day dealings with reality. Wondering is as natural to me as breathing. As long as you are thinking about reality, I would say you are a philosopher, a lover of wisdom. Even if those ideas never leave your head, you are still thinking about them, you are still having a dialogue with life, and with yourself. Personally, I study philosophical systems as they catch my attention and interest, and I am interested in how these systems can be implemented in my life, and how they can help clear things up for me as far as the path I plan to walk in this life, and as far as the example I want to set for those who surround me. I am not concerned with making a career in philosophy or with making money from the ideas I’m learning about. I guess in today’s world I would be considered a fool by many, but the truth is that the pursuit of money really devalues everything that becomes associated with it, and unfortunately there is nothing in today’s world which is not associated with money at some level.

There’s no doubt that we’ve built a cold and materialistic society, but that is only true of what we humans have artificially created as a civilization. The natural world, and life itself, is something completely different, completely beyond our understanding, beyond even good and evil. Why do animals have to eat each other for sustenance? It seems cruel, and I don’t know the reason for it being this way, but it seems to be something naturally ingrained in them as an instinct, something they can’t help doing. Animals are not killing each other because of trivial things like money, something material with no substance of its own. In a way we understand the innocence in this, since we don’t persecute wild animals for hunting their prey, and we don’t punish birds for eating worms and the like.

So yeah, yesterday I mentioned that I don’t know what my reason for writing is, yet I sit and start letting my brain go free and all this philosophical rigmarole starts pouring out. Cool, so what do I do with it? Where should I take it, in what direction exactly? Where was I going with all this anyway? Oh, right, I was explaining that I don’t want a career in this, that this is a very deep and personal journey for me, this philosophical and spiritual thing, and that I don’t intend to ever leave it behind, even if I never make a dime from it, because it reminds me that I’m truly alive.

This post marks Day 2 of posting 500 daily words on my blog. The topic continues from yesterday’s post, and will continue tomorrow, so if you are interested in what I’m saying please make sure to follow me and stay tuned for Day 3 tomorrow!

If you have a minute please listen to my instrumental trip-hop/electronic song “time flies” (link below).