28th March, 2020
Saturday
05:15 p.m (IST)
Life that matters.
Scientists, philosophers and many great thinkers have consumed their whole lives in search for meaning of life.To understand the answer, We have to understand why we care about this question in first place or why only humans care to find the answer?
We Sapiens have great power of imagination and its the one of the most important power we have, followed by emotional intelligence and cooperation. We learn from our past and we plan for our future while living in present. Its been rightly said that our mind is itself "a time travelling machine"- one second we can reconcile our memory from our childhood and the other second we can think for an event going to happen in few weeks and this power of jumping in from past to present to future has given us the natural curiosity to understand everything around and to relate it with our past, present and future. Like for e.g. If a hunter/forager luckily gets chopped woods on his way to cave, he would collect it because he can see the use of pile of chopped woods in preparing food. The same forager would not take the Snake home which he found on his way because of his past experience with snake or having no use in future. See our intelligence would of no use if we cannot harness our imagination and retrieve back things from our memories.
This power made us "truely humans" and this power made the vast endless human civilization on this pale blue dot. This power transformed hunter&gatherer into farmer then into kings and accountants, then to industrial workers and then to hedge fund investment bankers.
So for a farmer working in an Indian farm - volatility of stock market won't matter? and for hunter of Kalahari tribe- billion tonnes of wheat produced in north america won't matter? Because for every individual or a community "things that really matter" changes. But you will find all of them had one single common concern about the "purpose of life". Irrespective of demographics or geolocations they are found they will live a life of some happiness, grief, novelty experience, skill learning, loving someone, sex, wealth, and enlightenment. weather you're an investment banker or just a tribal person, you will experience most of the things mentioned above. So we can say most of people live their lives which are almost same with just little changes in details and to all of us "our lives matter".
But when we zoom out our place in cosmos we will see that all things that matter in our lives or even us wont matter at all. We are as significant as a dust particle on a beach in this grand cosmos. All of sudden all our accomplishments, our desires, our dreams everything values back to zero. So let me ask again now - Do our lives really matter?
Yes it does! but not on cosmic scale but on humanly scale. How we impact our lives onto the lives around us is what it really matters, how we helped someone falling or accepting someone's shortcomings and taking everyone along with us is what really matters.
So to conclude just remember one thing "Your life is not about only you but its about others and no one made to the other side on his own".
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SHUBHAM RAO
Saturday
05:15 p.m (IST)
Life that matters.
We Sapiens have great power of imagination and its the one of the most important power we have, followed by emotional intelligence and cooperation. We learn from our past and we plan for our future while living in present. Its been rightly said that our mind is itself "a time travelling machine"- one second we can reconcile our memory from our childhood and the other second we can think for an event going to happen in few weeks and this power of jumping in from past to present to future has given us the natural curiosity to understand everything around and to relate it with our past, present and future. Like for e.g. If a hunter/forager luckily gets chopped woods on his way to cave, he would collect it because he can see the use of pile of chopped woods in preparing food. The same forager would not take the Snake home which he found on his way because of his past experience with snake or having no use in future. See our intelligence would of no use if we cannot harness our imagination and retrieve back things from our memories.
This power made us "truely humans" and this power made the vast endless human civilization on this pale blue dot. This power transformed hunter&gatherer into farmer then into kings and accountants, then to industrial workers and then to hedge fund investment bankers.
So for a farmer working in an Indian farm - volatility of stock market won't matter? and for hunter of Kalahari tribe- billion tonnes of wheat produced in north america won't matter? Because for every individual or a community "things that really matter" changes. But you will find all of them had one single common concern about the "purpose of life". Irrespective of demographics or geolocations they are found they will live a life of some happiness, grief, novelty experience, skill learning, loving someone, sex, wealth, and enlightenment. weather you're an investment banker or just a tribal person, you will experience most of the things mentioned above. So we can say most of people live their lives which are almost same with just little changes in details and to all of us "our lives matter".
But when we zoom out our place in cosmos we will see that all things that matter in our lives or even us wont matter at all. We are as significant as a dust particle on a beach in this grand cosmos. All of sudden all our accomplishments, our desires, our dreams everything values back to zero. So let me ask again now - Do our lives really matter?
Yes it does! but not on cosmic scale but on humanly scale. How we impact our lives onto the lives around us is what it really matters, how we helped someone falling or accepting someone's shortcomings and taking everyone along with us is what really matters.
So to conclude just remember one thing "Your life is not about only you but its about others and no one made to the other side on his own".
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SHUBHAM RAO
Your thought on life is uniquely wonderful , loved reading this article.
ReplyDeleteReally thanks man! ✨🙌💛
DeleteThis one is really enough to estimate the power of life within you and this is really appreciable.
ReplyDeleteThankyou so much brother for this comment! It means a lot.
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