Nature spent hundreds of millions of years piecing together the rock I sat on, carving the path for the river to flow through, planting seeds for the acres of thick, luscious forests… just for us to be able to take nice pictures…?
Many of us live in a small realm of the world, where our individual pursuits and thoughts are often limited to ourselves and materialistic ideas and items. Who said what and wow, did enter name here really do that- a lot of our conversations consist of not silly, but nonsensical topics, holding true for many cultures around the world. Why do we waste even a minute of our lives sticking our noses in other people’s lives? Why are we often intrigued by shallow and irrelevant topics?
When your thoughts are confined to a number on your report card, your bank balance, your closet, or listening in on the lives of others, those are the lenses through which you’ll see your life- life is merely how we individually think of it.
When your thoughts are confined to a number on your report card, your bank balance, your closet, or listening in on the lives of others, those are the lenses through which you’ll see your life- life is merely how we individually think of it.
Ever wonder why people are always trying to find “love” or why that seems to be the only thing poets write about? People find solace in ideas that are bigger than themselves– ideas that offer unlimited space for them to wonder and explore and open doors of hope for them, regardless of what various living circumstances they might be experiencing.
Can one argue that people who are constantly living in these “big ideas“, such as ideas of everlasting love or the belief in the American dream for example, are actually living in a bubble they’ve created with their imagination? Seeing life for not what it really is, but for what they think it is? Realists that claim to see life for what it is, usually objective views of their living conditions and life around them, can one argue that realists too are living in a bubble confined to shallow, unexplored, or materialistic ideas and measures of life?
It’s remarkable how every lump of meat in our heads will answer these questions differently. Never underestimate the power of the lump of meat in your head.
More importantly, never stop challenging and exploring questions and ideas, even if you think you’ve found your answer(s) to them.
