Life is a series of unique encounters and experiences, and it’s up to us to learn as much as we can from as many of them as we can. I would even say it’s our responsibility, but not because it’s expected of us, or because its’ the right thing to do, or because of anything else like that. It’s our responsibility simply because no one else will do it for us, we are the only ones that it matters to. We can’t complain for what we haven’t been able to attain, simply because no one other than ourselves is responsible for our own lives, for the days that make up our lives and what we choose to fill them up with. There is no one to complain to. We are all capable of observing the world around us, most of us through all of our material senses, some of us through only some of them, but all of us in one way or another. We are all alive and aware that we are alive, is what I basically mean to say, and we all make decisions every second, we follow what our heart tells us, we make sacrifices. Figuratively, then, who are we to pretend to be blind, when we have been blessed with vision, with the vision that is time, and life itself? Who are we to neglect our time when we have been somehow granted with the amazing ability to decide how to use it, with a chance to decide between seemingly infinite possibilities? Like I’ve previously mentioned in this daily writing series, the duality of life makes it so that any kind of progress humanity makes is accompanied by an inherent dark side, the yin that, by necessity, compliments the yang of Taoist philosophy.
When we realize this, though, and we start to be mindful of this fact, of this strange system that is at play in our planet, or in this material, physical reality we mainly experience, and when it starts becoming a part of our everyday thinking, a part of our waking consciousness, it can sometimes get to a point where we start to completely ignore or simply discard all the good that does come from progress and innovation, and we start becoming bitter because we despise the changes that, according to us, are ruining our society, or at least taking it father and father away from what it used to, or what it should, be. The reality is, though, that we can’t deny the fact that there have never been so many resources available to people from all parts of the world and from all walks of life, as there are today, that there has never been so much information available, spanning such a wide range of topics. The internet is really an amazing invention and tool, and the way it works is beyond my current understanding, although it’s just another example of the invisible but eerily powerful forces that exist in this life of ours, either discovered, invented, or still unknown to us. We already know there are so many invisible energies which we can’t see, but which we know are there, like the air, like electricity, like sound waves and even brain waves. Is it too far of a stretch to imagine that our thoughts, our ideas, and our attitude towards life and others, carry their own energies, both positive and negative; that everything we think, say, or do, in fact, carries its own energy, and that our life on this earth is an amalgamation of all these energies, every action accompanied by its own reaction, or by many different reactions, each setting off its own chain of events? I would say it isn’t as crazy as it sounds, and it’s very worth considering, along with its possible implications.
If you have a few minutes check out my instrumental song ‘guardian angel.’ I appreciate you listening!
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