Saturday, March 29, 2008
Trapped In A Blur...
Isn't it strange that we have zero concept of reality? What do you mean, what do I mean? I mean you have no concept of reality. None. It doesn't exist. If I asked you to define a reality, you couldn't do it. Its impossible for your brain to even grasp what reality is. I mean where is reality? You think it ends at the limits of your eyesight or the limits of your hearing? No it keeps going. Reality has no boundaries, it is existing everywhere at once. Farther than the eye can see or the ears can hear. And the reality of what is happening outside your box is affecting whats in your box. So how can you understand whats happening in your box if your just dealing with limited data. So you say well I have a concept of my own personal reality which is boxed in by the limits of my senses. Thats funny. No you dont. You think you can grasp the vastness of everything that is happening around you in a fraction of a second? By the time you've even attempted to grasp what is happening around you, that thing you've tried to analyze has already changed. Its gone. It came and went and by the time you held out your hand to hold it, it has already disappeared. It sucks too because Im sure it was beautiful. To understand everything at once. That is such a daunting task. Its so intimidating. What is happening around us. And for humans, the most advanced species on the face of the earth....we cant do it. We dont even come close. I mean think about it...do you know how intelligent humans are? At one time, our race saw this bright object in the sky that rose at night, and set by morning and we said, we will build a vehicle that will allow us to traverse space and land on it so we can understand it. We thought to ourselves, man it would be great if I could speak to someone on the other side of the planet right now. And we built a telephone. Even to this day it fascinates me that I can say something in a telephone and a person thousands of miles away will hear me instantaneously! Its unbelievable...the curiosity and intelligence of man. I mean think about what it took to send someone to the moon. We needed to master physics. I mean master it...understand it from all angles. Understand what kind of environment the moon was suspended in. How the moon was suspended in the first place. How we would build something to traverse it successfully without creating a cosmic disaster. Fascinating. And then I think of reality, and I say to myself how is it that man, in all his curiosity and brilliance, how is it that he can not understand the reality of what is happening around him. Its all just a big blur. We are constantly just living in a past where we believe it is the present. The present. Now. Right now. Its so weird. Right now. Right now. Right now. Now. Whenever I think about right now, and I try to put my arms around it, my heart starts to race for some reason. Its as if I understand the reality that Im living with no safety net. Anything can happen right now. i can do anything right now. Anything.
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inspiring!
I have also thought a lot about this concept. I think the fact that every moment, every interaction with some sort of reality is in a perpetual state of fleeting is what makes life beautiful. Sometimes you just want to hold on to a moment SO badly, but you know that you can't . And that's what makes you appreciate it. Our lives are beautiful because they are ephemeral.
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