Being individuals we all assume our life is special and we are different than everyone else. We assume we will reach a special place in life that perhaps noone or very few before us could ever achieve or maybe even comprehend. Another example would be that we rationalize a decision or idea based on the fact that since it involves us its of most importance. The sad reality is we are simply one of millions of species, on a single planet of thousands, in a galaxy made up of many. We are in fact guests to the god known as time just passing through its everlasting world. Our lifespan is mere nanoseconds to time, the equivalent of perhaps a shooting star out of the corner of your eye which you arent even completey sure you saw, and thats at most. Contributors of our world like the first civilizations of man, midevil artists who had perspectives that to this day we still cant comprehend, explorers who refused to accept, impacting world leaders who shaped our global community, human rights activisits who helped all of mankind get closer to an equal opportunity, famed athletes who set records deemed unbreakable, or our great, great grandparents who are directly responsible for our exact existence and whom we've only seen in fuzzy, uncolored photographs .........all dead, gone, and rarely thought about.
All of the forementioned talked about less and less until evolution and new achievements make them all but meaningless. At some point in time half of those mentioned in history books will no longer be listed due to new periods of time and the fact that their lives 'simply cant fit into print'.
Think you are great at your job? You could be replaced in weeks if not days. Think you have a bond with someone that could never be duplicated? Perhaps you are already unknowingly up for trade. Think life will work out differently for you because you are special? So has everyone before you soon to be replaced by everyone that follows.
So knowing this, Where do we as individuals fit into this proven theory and how do we accept that we are mere white dash lane markers on the highway of infinity? If there are those of us that want to bust out and do or be something special, how do we do this knowing the preceding? How do we prove that yes, we are special, unique, and full of color in a world filled with black and white? How does my tiny brain thats relatively the same size as yours and everyone you know comprehend doing something so special that Im forever remembered throughout the life of time itself?
Unfortunately, despite how special we feel, its simply impossible and to a superior species that could exist we are nothing but mere ants. In a 100 mile radius of my current home alone there are 7 million plus ants all doomed to be squished or burned by a magnifying glass, meanwhile thinking they too are one of a kind.
Noone wants to believe that they are, afterall .....................Replaceable.
Its hard to accept.
2 comments:
Correction, girls are replaceable! just jokes.
Seriously though, rather than being a tiny part of the universe as insignificant, i see it like this: we are a part of the whoe UNIVERSE, we are part of something hge, somethign so big we cant even begin to fathom it, it is greater than any single one of us. We are all in it together, so why compete or try to save your ass from being being replaced? I gave up that way of thinking. The universe is so big, there is plenty for everyone.
Ok here is where i get a lil crazy, but it is a great theory. Deepak Chopra says we are not physical beings going through a spiritual experience on this earth. Instead we are spiritual beings having a physical experience on earth. we are all part of the same collective. What is also weird, is that I am responding to your post when I could just be chatting with you, whats with this extra degree of separation?
Your thoughts are well respected. The extra degree of separation allows you to speak your entire perspective without interruption or influence. You still owe me a portrait.
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