A life worth living



As people, we have a big problem: it is neither climate change nor wars, it our own perspective over the world. We are falling into the trap of our mind, by referring to the world through the prism of our own experiences.

The paradox is that this makes sense. The most reliable data each of us has is the data each of us gathered through our own experiences. We know for sure this data is real, veridic and most certainly not fake.

But this is a double-edged sword, because in our subconscious we see ourselves - with our problems, our dreams, all in all, all our experiences - as being immortal, eternal. The same with our parents. Subconsciously we think they will live forever. This is also normal - by relying on data personally gathered by us, it is impossible to have dying as one of the experiences (note: I am intentionally referring here to the wide mass of people who have neither lived through some kind of deep spiritual events nor gone through near death experiences).

For this reason we take everything so seriously - even though we know almost nothing about the reality around us! For this reason we think the biggest problem in our lives is that e.g. the others think badly of us. All this, when dying is actually the biggest problem. A problem that we are yet to find a solution to.

Ask yourself this question: how real are your ancestors born in 1922 for you? What about those from 1872?

You may know the names of your grand-grand-parents from 1872, but how real are they to you? Most likely, not very! They are just a story, a fantasy. Can you imagine that their lives were as real as yours? As intense as yours? And still, they are gone. Like we all will be.

Now imagine that after you die - it may be in 1 day or in 80 years - your existence will become obsolete in around 100 years. I say 100 years because a new generation is born approximately every 30 years - so put differently, our name will outlive us by around 3 generations.

Let me highlight this idea again: *everything you experience at this moment with such vividness, such intensity will be gone forever and it will be like it never existed.*

All this, while the wind will blow like it always has, and the sun will shine like it always has.

But not you. You will be gone.

This way of thinking is also not new. More precisely, it is as old as the human thought. Ever since we started thinking - around 200.000 years ago, we believed that we are the center of the world. That this is the most important moment in the universe. It's funny. Every generation thinks of themselves they are the most important. The game changers. The law breakers. They are the ones who can make it all or break it all. Here’s a bonus, we all think the world will end with us. So all this story is not new at all (note: me observing this behaviour is also not new. There have been many philosophers, known and unknown, who observed the same human behaviours throughout different times in our history).

So I challenge you: be honest and ask yourself the following - what if we are just another grain of dust in the wind, that we must make the most of? I believe that at birth we are gifted this life, this time. Gifted by who, you may ask. And my answer is - does it even matter? There! There's another second we won't get back. There's another. There's another. For this reason, I say: Dream, be yourself, live & build your dream, be an idealist.

Who cares what anyone else says? We will all be gone. Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't take death too seriously. Be happy. Be sad. And live the way you are born to live.