Too big a picture to live by
Unchain the colours
Before my eyes
Yesterday's sorrows
Tomorrow's white lies.
We might not realise it, but we are governed by the politics of perpetual change. With time, we discover whole new dimensions of ourselves that we never knew existed. It overwhelms us. Thats what it primarily does. From then on, depending on the state of the mind before the discovery it may either enliven us or alienate us furthur.
There is this hypothetical "system" that bears the brunt of all of our existential angst. Feel depressed? Oh well, the system is fucked.
I think, up until one point in life we're all an outrageously pompous race who cannot come to terms with the fact that we are the cause of ourselves. Then suddenly, there is a primal surge upstairs. Realisation that everything is irreflexive and legions of minute mutually exclusive events that are communicating sensitivity into you. What follows is a beautiful self-actualisation process after which you end up with a clear sense of exactly what you didn't want to know.
A double egg-roll and Orange Gola can make it all the more beautiful. Relaxatives.
In a nutshell, I was thinking and a thought hit me. It is staggering in its simplicity.
What is so positive about living like there is no tomorrow?
Is it not clearly more positive to live with a sense of positivity about tomorrow?
Before my eyes
Yesterday's sorrows
Tomorrow's white lies.
We might not realise it, but we are governed by the politics of perpetual change. With time, we discover whole new dimensions of ourselves that we never knew existed. It overwhelms us. Thats what it primarily does. From then on, depending on the state of the mind before the discovery it may either enliven us or alienate us furthur.
There is this hypothetical "system" that bears the brunt of all of our existential angst. Feel depressed? Oh well, the system is fucked.
I think, up until one point in life we're all an outrageously pompous race who cannot come to terms with the fact that we are the cause of ourselves. Then suddenly, there is a primal surge upstairs. Realisation that everything is irreflexive and legions of minute mutually exclusive events that are communicating sensitivity into you. What follows is a beautiful self-actualisation process after which you end up with a clear sense of exactly what you didn't want to know.
A double egg-roll and Orange Gola can make it all the more beautiful. Relaxatives.
In a nutshell, I was thinking and a thought hit me. It is staggering in its simplicity.
What is so positive about living like there is no tomorrow?
Is it not clearly more positive to live with a sense of positivity about tomorrow?
posted by Manu at
9:57 pm
7 Comments:
first off, brilliant post.
optimism isn't best postponed.
optimism is a quick fix solution. cocaine level shit.
tomorrow's so far off da. and as much as you say its in your control, a huge chunk of tomorrow is still under circumstance.
why fix tomorrow? more like, HOW fix tomorrow?
today, fuck, NOW is what you have in your hands.
to shoot, to fly, to drop, to write.. to do it NOW is the choice.
we're a pompous race - fuck yeah. we so want to be in control.
so our idea of positivity IS to feel in control.
and what is more in control?
today. correction. now.
which CAN be nothing to do with tomorrow.
therefore, positivity is present solution.
QED.
A-fuckin-mazing.... Totally insightful. And I had to actually look up the dictonary. I am absolutely awed by the magnitude of the mindjob of your post.
I just remembered that night at You-Know-Who's place when we were watching Matrix... Smith says that the pattern of human growth resembles a Virus. So true. But then again, we are what we forever were. A species procreating and creating pathways for self-actualization which is intertwined with doom. We seek our own happiness, be it right now or tomorrow, and proceed on in a temporal state of feelings towards something fundamentally illusory. Why it is so, we really wouldn't know. Maybe we ARE the viruses of the universe eh?
And it is said that existential angst is experienced by people who have TOO much realization of life. Oh well, maybe we should start discussing gear ratios again. ;-)
A sense of positivity about right now matters more because you're not procrastinating happiness. A sense of positivity about tomorrow is what makes us quintessentially human - Hope.
Brilliant post. Very thought provoking and insightful. Self actualisation is a beautiful process. shows us that our minds are so complex there are things hidden in ourselves that we didnt know about.
Living like there's no tomorrow is to a very great extent...shall I say..highly ignorant? But if we are looking at only the aspect of our thoughts then there's nothing wrong with thinking about the positivety of tomorrow but as long as it doesnt stop one from enjoying or feeling pleasure from the present.
Finchie: i like that. despite the fact that demonstrandum was done in a far simpler manner that i'd have thought. So are you suggesting that, somewhere along the line there is a distinct dividing line between realism and optimism? The rest i agree with. Bravo. Thanks!
AC: Much as i hate to live life thinking of it as an illusion, I tend to agree with your version of the Smith blurb. There are many ways in which matrix is understood (the most convenient one being Prateek's! LMAO!) but i like the idea of viruses of the universe. Yes gear ratios, beer. GIVE! Thanks for the kind comment man. Meant a lot.
ujju: "our minds are so complex there are things hidden in ourselves that we didnt know about." A subtle and beautiful interpretation of the post. Thanks!
look at realism, optimism and pessimism, NOT as perspectives, but as incidents - good and bad.
if you treat realism as a continuum,
then optimism is at one end of it, pessimism at the other.
deal is, that both are possibilities.
both CAN be real.
now, treat optimism and pessimism as what they ARE: outlooks to life aka perspectives.
but when this look-at-things-in-SOME-light stuff comes in, its called perspective.
so, technically, there can't be a distinct line, because the idea of realism itself can be shifted either towards pessimism or optimism.
example? say you're REALLY in shit. and you're quintessential optimist:
then, you tend to find the ongoing events, juxtaposing against your IDEA of reality - in short, realism.
shit, this funda's so hard for me to explain over a comment box.
maybe when that corn thing happens.. what say? :-)
take care.
and quit with the thanks.
Finchie, according to what you've said, the concept of continuum of reality is not possible as a singular concept. It involves an intertwined duality of optimism and pessimism. You can't just ditch any one of em...
Manu, think Prakruti and Purusha. ***LMAO***
Dump all this. Let's be realistic and get some beer. Over and out.
yus. thet only.
that both are the two faces of the same coin.
your treat.
LOR.
:-D
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