Thursday, December 25, 2008
You don't have to be a part of the human 'race'.
I've always found it hard to sit still. It's as though I'm attached to this planet; revolving and evolving over a sort of universal measurement. For me, it's definitely beyond this worldly measurement.
Even if 'chaotically', for there is order in chaos. The uncharted path has no rules, no signpost, and is never clear to the physical eyes or mind. There is no preparation for it, only awareness is a necessity and requirement in this phenomenon.
One moves along using intuition, a kind of feeling. A 'calling' really.
If you want to create a better mouse trap, the clues are already in place. Even in finding another solution to eliminate the mouse problem, fragments of the solution would be within proximity of a set parameter.
Understanding the habitat of a mouse would simply give some light to this quest.
But herein lies the matter. Only when given a problem, we seem to race about in search for a solution, or an improvement to one.
What if the problem is not identifiable, not visible? What if the 'problem' is a sense of impelling direction one feels even when "everything seems fine"?
There is no correlation except a sense of unrest, invisible elements calling us forth to begin our journey without knowing what the quest is.
The call or the need to move, to take shape, give form, establish meaning within an unknown time limit and border of space.
Maybe the seed of anticipation for such notion is in all of us but throughout our governed and guided lives, our evolution has been directed to a major extend, mentally (norms and customs) and physically (laws). Conformation, in one way or another, has become the order of the day.
On one side, everything around us, wants to govern us, to control us, no matter how subtle it may seem.
Aside from the forces of this nature-universe, which I believe does so for a good reason when we are not trying to exploit it, among our own fellow-humans, many feel the need to set rules, create boundaries, discriminate, even eliminate, and carry out other forms of domination in the name-sake of order.
Order like we make from a food menu, differs more in us humans than in plants or animals. We choose what we like, after all, we want an identity that sets us apart from our fellow-humans, strangely to a measurable extend, because we still want to conform at some point.
We feel the need or just want to belong and not be left out or to be called strange or different in a 'bad' way. Perception indeed and our image seems to be at stake here.
See how it all plays out? We have this weakness, and it's being exploited under our very noses.
And being self-driven and -centred individuals, we compromise and give in, in order to get what we want more easily.
We get to choose from the menus, we tell ourselves.
Of course when what we want isn't on the table, historically, we have taken others measures to correct such situations.
Plants and animals by nature, have rather similar characteristics, with their own differing policies and methods of course. However, all in all, they solely operate to survive, nothing more nothing less, each species alike.
Still, animals and plants can evolve given time when their survival are threatened. Again, problem produces solution. Or, only when there's a problem, the solution becomes important, however in this case, often with the cost of life, for evolution states that only the strongest or the most adaptable will live on in face of the given alternating circumstances.
But unlike plants or animals, we humans have that extra something called free-will against set norms, cultures, laws, beliefs, and so on. Sure we can kill someone whenever we feel like it. But, what does that bring forth, unless it is to protect innocent or helpless people?
Some believe wiping out the entire human race would yield better results/order. For the obvious one, the earth would be freed of a destructive and ever-consuming force that ironically believes it is creating order. The earth may also just be able to save itself, hopefully for the next race to live on, if ever there is such a thing of course.
But the person who thinks about such a thing, like me, will be instantly regarded as a threat to our orderly civilisation (mass perception) and probably hunted down and isolated if there's any sign that I could possibly carry out such a notion. Please, I'm trying to draw out a decent dialogue here, not destroy myself or others. Chill CIA, FBI.
The points I've been vaguely trying to establish here are:
1. Do you wait for a reason to change or should you initiate change by means of searching inside yourself for your own purpose in life?
2. Once identified, is(are) your life purpose genuinely for the betterment of yourself and the world around you?
3. Do you need to carve out your own path rather than conform to already set paths in carrying out the above?
The great inventors of our time would be a good checkpoint; yet, the light bulb, the car (transportation) and other such inventions have only short-term benefits as they drain what is left of our natural resources and create drastic climate change and pollution. But I for one am a victim and user of such inventions. Why? Well, it's the norm... isn't it?
Here I end with my main point, the norm isn't always right. We shouldn't blindly follow the so called 'proven' path, at least think before doing so. Think long. Ideally, find your own path and consider the long-term implications before embarking on it.
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