The truth is-
That it doesn’t exist.
Our truth is our own,
And that is all.
But there is a certain complexity to Truth.
Truth is an oxymoron.
Since we are ever-changing,
Our truth can never possibly last longer than a friend passing by, or than a meal even.
Because these things,
Like everything else we know,
Are temporary,
Ephemeral,
Finite.
Yet it is interesting to think about the Cycle of Life,
To think about Life,
And to think about cycles.
A cycle is the beginning of the end.
It is the eternal return other authors and philosophers have mentioned,
It is eternal and ever-lasting.
This paradigm then makes us wonder who or what we are.
Are we a fraction of Life?
Since Life is infinite, and we are mortals, we can’t possibly be Life.
Instead,
I argue,
We are a very, very short fraction of it.
Now, this is wildly interesting, and here is where human complexity comes into the picture of this Great Life Paradigm.
We understand the shortness of our lifetime,
Yet we still are, or seem to be, horrible at taking advantage of this short amount of time.
Through a spiritual lens,
Or even without one,
Life is a gift.
If you look at the sum of its parts,
Life is incomprehensible, eternal, and divine.
Hearing this, reading this, and even knowing this, doesn’t mean anything, unless we start living.
Trying to make sense of Life, is like trying to make sense of anything eternal and divine,
Of anything intangible.
We humans love trying to solve these puzzles.
We love attempting to label the intangible,
Trying to make sense of everything,
With the end goal of-
Of what?
This is the part that is so, as I’ve said, complex.
This is the part I don’t fully understand.
And I don’t have to.
That would be,
Ironically,
Another contradiction.
One could bring up Ego into this Life equation,
To explain a human’s desire to have an identity,
But I find it unnecessary to try and find an explanation as to why we try to make sense of everything through labeling it.
Perhaps, it is highly influenced by the Ego,
And this would correlate to Identification,
But to have a factual answer to the question of why humans try to make sense of everything,
I would have to go through the impossible task of asking every single human a secondary question of a Life equation,
Because it would almost be criminal to homogenize the Human Mind into one.
Looking at the sum of the parts of Life is difficult.
It doesn’t have to be.
Nothing has to be.
We just are,
But since we can’t put a label to Being,
And we can’t fully understand it,
We reject it.
Then we are rejecting ourselves.
And the end result of this is suffering, pain, and identification.
Identification is what psychologists divide into the Social and Individual Selves.
Why?
Because we need to put ourselves in these categories to try and make sense of who we are.
The human unenlightened mind goes:
If I don’t have a label (I am Mexican, I am a Daughter, I am a Student, I am a Writer),
I don’t matter.
If I don’t matter,
I don’t have meaning.
If I don’t have meaning,
I don’t exist.
Therefore, I will suffer:
And this exact thought process is what creates suffering.
Meaning,
Depending on culture,
Can serve several definitions.
I’ll propose two definitions.
First:
Meaning is found deeply in the Self,
Through deep knowledge of oneself beyond the physical world.
Second:
Meaning is found beyond the Self,
Through a deeper connection with the physical and spiritual worlds.
I also understand that Meaning could be a conglomeration of both of these beliefs.
Throughout human history there has appeared to be a very obvious dichotomy which creates violence.
These violent dichotomies (like war, fights and conflicts) usually begin with worldviews of any kind.
Individualism and collectivism,
Traditionalism and liberalism,
North and South,
It all begins with the mind.
The mind is a very powerful tool,
But that’s all it is,
A tool.
The Mind is not, or shouldn’t be, The Self.
Because then, Meaning is found neither in the deep connection with the Self, nor in the deep connection with the physical and spiritual worlds,
Then meaning is found in labels and superficial, easily-accessible things.
Doubtfully, could Meaning be rooted in a car, or money, or a cellphone, or a purse, or any other artifact or noun.
A car is different from driving,
Money is different from giving,
A cell phone is different from sharing, learning, and communicating,
A purse is different from keeping.
Meaning could be in the action, not the noun.
So, Truth does not exist
Because Truth is one’s own
And a contradiction.
Life is a cycle,
Therefore, it has no
True beginning or end.
We, Humans are not Life,
We are a small and short fraction of it.
The Human Experience (Human’s limited time on Earth) is wasted in trying to make sense of everything intangible.
Human Experience, in this way, then makes the Living Experience,
Through labels and Identification,
Meaningless.
