To be honest, I would need to be intoxicated with caffeine to even begin touching on this topic. Or be high on shrooms so that I'll be lucid dreaming on what is life all about in a bubble above my head. But I'm not. So by now you should know this post is going nowhere near brilliant..
Nonetheless, her challenge is indeed very timely as recently, I was just talking to another friend about life purposes. He told me about this quote: "Why worry about life? It is not like you gonna get out of it alive anyway." I came across this saying before and when he mentioned it, it just struck me how relatable that is to other people.
Nonetheless, her challenge is indeed very timely as recently, I was just talking to another friend about life purposes. He told me about this quote: "Why worry about life? It is not like you gonna get out of it alive anyway." I came across this saying before and when he mentioned it, it just struck me how relatable that is to other people.
So if life is supposed to end, then what does forever even mean? "Forever is composed of nows." I'm sure many of you have been seeing this other quote around recently because of John Green's Paper Town. It is true that we have finite time on earth because of the fragility of our life. So the "forever" we promise our loved ones is the sheer present, the depth of love you have for them in the now. It does not extend to the future, to the afterlife, because we are never in control of the unknown. But, 'forever' seems definite to some at the moment because those bubbly feelings of loving and being loved easily triumph over their logical senses.
Who are we exactly?
Scientifically, we are made up of atoms. So if atoms never die, we never die. We are merely disintegrated into particles that have made us up in the first place and then assembled into something else.
Scientifically, we are made up of atoms. So if atoms never die, we never die. We are merely disintegrated into particles that have made us up in the first place and then assembled into something else.
But this is just our physical shell. What about our soul? Personally, I believe in souls. Our hormones help to trigger actions and chemicals like endorphin induce happiness, but they do not make up our personalities. They are merely supplements that feed our spirits. In early 20th century, a physician named Duncan MacDougall attempted to prove the existence of souls by measuring the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. It was measured to be 21 grams. While the experiment was flawed, it certainly accentuated the notion of 'soul'. I see our soul as an energy that never dies, and is simply transferred or converted to another form.
So if forever is the now, why do we strive so hard in life? Is it because our soul is gonna be graded and only the high scorers get to be teleported to the next level? Is the next level gonna be heaven or hell based on our merits in this life we have? Maybe. But so far, everything sounds a little too self-centric. We are never living only for ourselves, are we? Hence, it doesn't matter if we are being assessed or not, because we do whatever we intend to do anyway for our loved ones.
There are too many unanswered questions about life. Especially its biggest component named 'love'. Does one true love exist? Or is it just something that people make up to remain committed to their partner? What is the difference between the love you feel for your first love and your final love? I'm talking above the love here, not feelings of thrill you find in the former and security you find in the latter. So if you can love more than one person in your life that intensely, does soulmate still exist? How can love for someone just fade away in the passage of time? Is it because our body replaces itself with a whole set of cells every 7 years? Can we have pure love for someone where compatibility does not matter? Why do we feel jealous and possessive?
Why are we happy when we feel special to someone? This question has been ringing in my head for quite sometime. I feel that the answer has to do with the meaning of one's existence. We want to feel needed. We want to feel indispensable. This is why we can't tolerate polygamy (at least in most cultures). If your partner can love someone else other than you, then what is the purpose of you?
Aren't we all similar then, in a way?
So if forever is the now, why do we strive so hard in life? Is it because our soul is gonna be graded and only the high scorers get to be teleported to the next level? Is the next level gonna be heaven or hell based on our merits in this life we have? Maybe. But so far, everything sounds a little too self-centric. We are never living only for ourselves, are we? Hence, it doesn't matter if we are being assessed or not, because we do whatever we intend to do anyway for our loved ones.
There are too many unanswered questions about life. Especially its biggest component named 'love'. Does one true love exist? Or is it just something that people make up to remain committed to their partner? What is the difference between the love you feel for your first love and your final love? I'm talking above the love here, not feelings of thrill you find in the former and security you find in the latter. So if you can love more than one person in your life that intensely, does soulmate still exist? How can love for someone just fade away in the passage of time? Is it because our body replaces itself with a whole set of cells every 7 years? Can we have pure love for someone where compatibility does not matter? Why do we feel jealous and possessive?
Why are we happy when we feel special to someone? This question has been ringing in my head for quite sometime. I feel that the answer has to do with the meaning of one's existence. We want to feel needed. We want to feel indispensable. This is why we can't tolerate polygamy (at least in most cultures). If your partner can love someone else other than you, then what is the purpose of you?
Aren't we all similar then, in a way?
My thoughts are seriously all over the place and I have yet to debate on whether the universe is finite or infinite and whether time is linear or circular. Believe me or not, they are intricately linked to our lives. They determine if time travel is possible and doppelganger from another time and space exists. Hahahaha. But I guess I shall save these topics for another time..
So don't take life too seriously. And it will be easier to live.
So don't take life too seriously. And it will be easier to live.
多少人走着却困在原地
多少人活着却如同死去
多少人爱着却好似分离
多少人笑着却满含泪滴
谁知道我们该去向何处
谁明白生命已变为何物
是否找个借口继续苟活
或是展翅高飞保持愤怒
谁知道我们该梦归何处
谁明白尊严已沦为何物
是否找个理由随波逐流
或是勇敢前行挣脱牢笼
我该如何存在
Great song. The lyrics are so on point. How do I exist..MMMM. The first verse especially shows how life is full of contradictions.
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