Welcome to life, if you do not know the roads.
- Magical Mindful Living
- Apr 8
- 3 min read
Life - a weird dream.
It happened one day, for about 3.5 decades ago. I was born to this thing called self. It's a weird dream. I was hopeless as a person. Hanging on my mother, dependent on everything. Just three kilos of flesh and bones, and a consciousness with no memory. I am not sure why this, why here and why now. It took years and years for me to learn everything. From A to Z of drop of everything humans have gained over the years. And I was hopeless. I had to believe in everything they say. About the skies, trees, gods, ancestors and science, mathematics. There are libraries of accumulated knowledge of human consciousness. Stories, as were interpreted by some observers in the past, written down in books. And here I am writing down my own observations about the world. But why?
I know the answer to why. And I know what is wrong with that too. Because I have been travelling in the information highway until I met my own crossroads in life. Where the true life If at all present, begins. Then only you would realize all you have been doing is pressing the gas harder and harder, in life, to travel faster and faster towards your own doom. Crossroads are blessings from our own past. For us to stop and think seriously about life. Even better if you do not know where to ride next.
Why I create knowledge?
The reason I am writing is to preserve these thoughts. As I now learn value is not in these papers called money. Values are in human minds. Values are created exactly when you think about something. A car, a boat, a dollar bill or even this article. You are the evaluator of your own Values. Hence, I have learned my lesson of human values hard way. And I am making it easier for you to understand, so you do not have to waste years and years of your life wasting not knowing what to do. Path to create Values is by preserving your consciousness by creating something or collecting something. So, start it today. Trust me you will be a happier person doing it. And that leaves me with my next claim. I have to explain the fault in this thought too. To do that I have to drag you into some little bit of philosophy.
If you already know, there is a thing called subjectivity about our consciousness. We are prisoners of our own bodies. Our consciousness cannot magically float and see the world in another perspective. Not even after death likely. So, whatever the Values you try to preserve may not be valuable to others. It even won't be valuable until you die. Like Schmidt tunnel for that matter. But I can guarantee that it will be valuable for you always. Isn't it amazing to know. The value you feel looking at a little ant climbing a grass is much more than a hundred-dollar bill. And this is the nature of Values. If you believe in it, it's true.
I think you get the problem now. Problem is its all imaginary. To savor a movie, even a piece of mango you have to imagine. You have to evaluate your own experience against your own past and give it a value. And without these snippets of thoughts, we are nothing.
Welcome to life, if you do not know the roads.
If you feel nihilistic by now. I can say welcome to life. As my objective is complete as I have created crossroads in your life. From here onwards it's up to you to question your all life and observe what's happening in your brain. The experiment of life already started when you were born, and you are just the creator of your own reality. If you let your mindfulness to watch this every day, you may ask the questions like "what is the meaning of all this?" Isn't it absurd to give Values to things I see and believe in them and cry over them in the next second?
Let's discuss some of the things bothering you about your life. And try to find out whether there is truly a knot. Or just a no knot.
Having spent quite a bit of time lately with elderly people, on the decline, and seeing the many, often difficult (at least for them) life tasks imposed on them and knowing how their story (everyone’s story) will eventually end, it seems hard to justify them spending their remaining time engaging in these socially-imposed tasks.