Why not die today?
Let's take a look at life from the "regular" perspective.
Everyday people go about doing their own things, attending to matters- personal
and professional- sometimes voluntarily and other times just because they have
to. People experience various emotions throughout the course of the day, some
sticking to routines while others explore new things. We interact with other people,
some of whom we like and others we absolutely cannot stand. We maintain
relationships with family and friends, with colleagues, with acquaintances. We
get stressed out over deadlines, work, things we're supposed to do, promises we’re
meant to fulfill. Things happen that result in us experiencing grief, anger,
disappointment, happiness, relief. There is so much for us to do in life, so
many things for us to worry about, so many matters for us to attend to, so many
goals we desire to accomplish, so very many feelings to express, the list goes on and on.
But why? Why do we fret? Why do we cry? Why do we feel life is unfair? Why do we place such significance on life? How sure are we of what it even is? How can we know for sure? How do we justify the importance of life? Is it based on the assumption that because it feels real to us, this “life” we lead is the ultimate reality and needs to be taken seriously?
Life is absurd- not in itself, but the very idea of it.
How certain are we of what we are experiencing is real? You, sitting down and reading this, how do you know you are not dreaming? How do you know you are not a figment of someone else’s imagination or a part of a scripted play? How do you know that everything you assume to be real, is actually so? How can you know? What is certainty and does it exist?
Don’t brush these questions off like the average person would.
Stop and ponder.
And now attempt to provide an answer.
Can you?
Comments
At one point, we're just going to have to accept the fact that we may never truly know what is true, false or even real. Instead, we ought to have a good, long look at what's on our plate. What's right in our face.
We can toy around with the idea that everything is just a facade or that we're not really, really here as much as we want. But, for me, when I try to convince myself that everything is just a figment of my, or someone else's, imagination... I can't ignore the fact that every known part of me is crying out that this is as close to real as it's going to get.
Whatever experience we encounter, thought we ponder on, or decision we make, will cause some kind of consequence.. trigger some kind of emotion..
Whatever this is that we're living through and experiencing, real or unreal, each and every thing we do in it results in some kind of ripple. A ripple that causes a hundred million things to change around us and ultimately, positively or negatively, affect us in the process.
Agony, pleasure, depression, joy, failure, success... whatever we do, there's something bound to happen. It all just comes down to whether you want it all to last in a blaze of good experiences or bad ones. I think the one lasting idea we can hold on to is the fact that: somehow, to some degree, we can manipulate or control how it will all turn out for us; and hope for our sanity that it's enough.