Random thoughts tend to be less random in this light...
Has anyone ever thought about life or existance? Well duh, I'm sure everyone has. But have you ever come to a realization?
To me, life seems to be a string of memories, the present tense never actually existing. One can be lost in a flurry of memories of the past. Wishing you could relive those lost moments, or possibly changed something that you regret doing, or not doing, however it may be. Or you can spend your time dreaming of the future. You can wish for things to happen a certain way or actually plan out realistic things. What I began to see is that happiness or pleasure can sometimes be an illusion. At all times you have to be feeling some sort of desire and pain. Even when you are enjoying something there is always that bit of knowledge in the back of your mind that this moment will end. And for that simple fact, you can not fully appriciate it. No matter what you do you can also always see that where you are now, is right now. And what happened to before? It's gone, because now it's now. Hard to explain but if you think about it, you can never really "cease the moment". I have tried, and before you realize, it's lost and gone. This doesn't mean that one should always be upset or anything, because you can still find pleasure, but at the cost of knowing it will not last forever. What you have to think about instead is that it's not gone forever either, "what once was lost, now is found". Life is just a cycle of emotions, nothing is forever gone. You will feel pain again, you will be upset, you will hate something, but you will also find joy, be loved, and have hope. If someone commits to giving up, then they are just trying to rid themselves of some of those options.
The world is all about balance. Everything has a purpose and it's actions are taken in order to balance out the actions of something else. Nearly all of these actions are done without thinking about the effect that they will be balancing out, but it does happen... in some small way. In a way though, we are balanced within our selves. When you feel happy you are pushing away sadness, and when you are tired, you are pushing away your consiousness. So when you sleep you are not using your sight so that gives way to your minds eye. I think I took a big leap there, but go along with me. When you are sleeping you are just seeing the thoughts you are having, and the strange thing is, you never stop thinking. You always have to have something in your mind to think about, something to sort of "obsess" on. Never is the mind quiet, and when we sleep we see these things become real. But when you dream you aren't really seeing them, so what is it? Exactly what it is when you are awake. Just a thought. No matter how detailed you think you can make something seem in your mind, it doesn't even exist. You can't actually see it anywhere. Alright, sorry I went way off track, and I'm done being weird for now.
To me, life seems to be a string of memories, the present tense never actually existing. One can be lost in a flurry of memories of the past. Wishing you could relive those lost moments, or possibly changed something that you regret doing, or not doing, however it may be. Or you can spend your time dreaming of the future. You can wish for things to happen a certain way or actually plan out realistic things. What I began to see is that happiness or pleasure can sometimes be an illusion. At all times you have to be feeling some sort of desire and pain. Even when you are enjoying something there is always that bit of knowledge in the back of your mind that this moment will end. And for that simple fact, you can not fully appriciate it. No matter what you do you can also always see that where you are now, is right now. And what happened to before? It's gone, because now it's now. Hard to explain but if you think about it, you can never really "cease the moment". I have tried, and before you realize, it's lost and gone. This doesn't mean that one should always be upset or anything, because you can still find pleasure, but at the cost of knowing it will not last forever. What you have to think about instead is that it's not gone forever either, "what once was lost, now is found". Life is just a cycle of emotions, nothing is forever gone. You will feel pain again, you will be upset, you will hate something, but you will also find joy, be loved, and have hope. If someone commits to giving up, then they are just trying to rid themselves of some of those options.
The world is all about balance. Everything has a purpose and it's actions are taken in order to balance out the actions of something else. Nearly all of these actions are done without thinking about the effect that they will be balancing out, but it does happen... in some small way. In a way though, we are balanced within our selves. When you feel happy you are pushing away sadness, and when you are tired, you are pushing away your consiousness. So when you sleep you are not using your sight so that gives way to your minds eye. I think I took a big leap there, but go along with me. When you are sleeping you are just seeing the thoughts you are having, and the strange thing is, you never stop thinking. You always have to have something in your mind to think about, something to sort of "obsess" on. Never is the mind quiet, and when we sleep we see these things become real. But when you dream you aren't really seeing them, so what is it? Exactly what it is when you are awake. Just a thought. No matter how detailed you think you can make something seem in your mind, it doesn't even exist. You can't actually see it anywhere. Alright, sorry I went way off track, and I'm done being weird for now.