Riders on the storm
Been fighting a flu the last week or so, it is easy to be rundown with such schedules, but can't afford to stop at the moment. Forced labour is not my ideal situation, no matter how much I like the work and economic necessity forces action.
The internal storm rages, life goes on.
One day, one day... That is always the hope isn't it, one day things will be better and it keeps us going. Some even extend the idea into an afterlife, the struggle now will be rewarded in some paradise. Magical thinking to justify the hardship of existence with no proof other than feelings directed by cultural programming. To reach their own.
We all face storms and how we deal with them is up to us as individuals. I was raised to believe in an afterlife, I don't and prefer the fade to black scenario as in my thinking, it removes the safety net. Live now or lose your chance to live.
What is living for me might not be your ideal but my life is my own, it belongs to no one. Nor do my actions, they are mine too, even if influenced by others. Whether that is the reality doesn't really matter because that is the experience of reality; coloured, jaded, filtered, impure. You think you know the truth?
You might feel that way but that is the programming talking. Feeling doesn't mean true, shouting your truth doesn't mean correct. Truth is always singular, always complete, while knowledge is always limited and skewed by perspective, what you see and feel can never encapsulate the entirety of truth. And as all things are fundamentally connected, what you see is a part only, a piece divided by the limitation of sight.
While you keep expanding knowledge, truth exponentially increases with information that you can never see, let alone include in a meaningful way to make sense of the reality of the universe itself. So, all experience is narrow, enlightenment itself is not understanding it all, it is accepting that complete is impossible and being okay with it. In so doing, one can be complete in incompleteness.
Should it stop the quest for truth? Not at all, but the journey is not the destination and the destination is always an unknown as, there is always more to know. How you spend your life and what you spend your lifetime doing is up to you while limited by availability and resource. While there may be abundance for some, we only ever have what is available to us in the moment to use.
Your storm is your own but on a scale of even what we know of our world, it is only relevant to you. Not too far into the future, you will be forgotten, no matter how much you think you matter today. Again, I see this as freeing, salvation in the fact that no matter what we do, at the end of the day it blends away into existence and we become an unknowable truth of which none can have a view.
There are many theories on how to approach life but you are you, you know you are something which means, you are your own trusted resource.
Do you trust yourself? Perhaps you just do what others do, live the labels they define because you fear you may be wrong. You, like me, will be forgotten, your legacy is not you, it is what carries forward without you being attached to it.
We are all like the complete stranger who created the wheel, the wheel rolls on without us. Our job is to create, not be remembered for it.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
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Your posts always leave me contemplating...With so many other humans on this planet - its hard to feel like you can contribute something useful. I try to remember that while there are so many of us, only I have lived my life and therefore will always be unique, and thus contribute in my own unique way, regardless of what others might think and say, this truth cannot be denied.
Everyone has something to offer but no one really needs to think about who they are offering it to perhaps. Find what you love and do it to the best of your ability, no matter whether there is accolade or reward or it is completely ignored.
Goodmorning from my side of the globe, we concur, desolve and endure Storms all through life, sometimes i am scared but when i get by and the storm Settles i am happy again ...
Have a great Sunday
Storms come and go and each of them influences the way we see the world yet and can add more life value than the sunshine.
Yes so true, well today a bloodred moon and -4 here instead of sunshine but the Storms make life more exciting i think
Very Zen.... reminds me of 'whatever pain you have you should accept it, it is yours after all'.
Quote from a Zen monk in a talk I went to many years ago.
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Very true..
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Helped or harmed, you did it to yourself.
I like the idea that our ultimate end is emptiness, nothingness and total non-existence @tarazkp.
I am undecided as to whether or not our consciousness reincarnates, or gets broken up into the smaller pieces and transfers to the micro-organisms that we become (after death), but I tend to think that either way, our ultimate ending-point, and final resting place, will be emptniess, nothingness and non-existence... otherwise known as Nirvana 😊
If energy can not be created or destroyed only trasferred, our consciousness is just energy collected into a specific configuration. Death could just be the release of the bonds of the configuration, if 'I' is defined by the configuration, the breaking of form destroys the 'I'.
It might be true that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but some forms of energy seem to lack consciousness.
In cases like that, I think that energy is empty & void of experience, since it isn't conscious enough to know it's existence, or it's environment.
So we might still exist after death, in one form or another (i.e. the body parts and micro-organisms that we become), but if we aren't aware of it (depending on where our consciousness goes), it's as if we were nothing, empty and non-existant.
As for "I"... it's just a word-thought, an idea that people refer to over and over again, as if it existed, and is also known as self, myself, yourself, etc.
Outside of our ideas, thoughts and feelings though, I think "I" has no existence.
As I have matured as a person and also needed to adapt as a father, I have learned to be self aware and totally trusting is difficult considering the things we often say we know but can have a different perspective. I live my life by thinking what if my daughter knew the details of my story and decisions and ensuring she would be proud and encouraged for her own journey from those experiences.
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I have written about this long ago. This blockchain is immutable and if she does one day read it, I hope that there is little conflict between my words here and the way she knows me.
Health is wealth. 🙂🙂
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Great write up here you have done my
Trusting yourself is probably the main thing that any creator has to do first. If I don't trust myself that I can't contribute anything worthwhile, I will freeze. Trusting yourself requires certain arrogance, of course but it's worth it, I think.
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