To Exist
We are here for reasons we do not know… some of us try to know, yet fail; because of the way we grow. We feel that we know something, anything, for true, we don’t really care for the proper reasons though, and some day we will forget what we believe we know, so that thing is not true; and does not exist. Yet in combination with what we know, and forget, at the time we know it; it does exist, yet not for us, as we did not learn it… no thought is ever learned, nor is it forgot; it simply exists at certain times, in certain people, for certain reasons. We can learn and be free if we want, from the existence of thought, by forgetting all that we are, and allowing ourselves to simply become the existed ideas we once had. Most will never realize this, because we feel we need to hold on to ideas or we will forget them, most people are not old, and not dead… and so the idea is always there if we wish to have its power, so there is no reason not to forget and live.
I know how to exist, and how to live; the power comes from the idea of overcoming the problems we have, not by forgetting them, but realizing that they exist whether we know they do or have never heard of them ever before. Some people turn to drinking, some turn to drugs, others turn to sleep, or sex, anything they use to forget the reality they exist within; I turn to being alive, for living is a thing we all do, the ideas, the problems, and the solutions all exist; this is why if we want to overcome a problem, we just allow it to slip out of our head, and the solution will slip in if we want it to, if we hold onto the idea of the solution.. most are so consumed by the problems that they don’t take the time to live, or to feel the life around them. If we wish for a solution, and we can calm ourselves long enough to release the problems control upon us, it will appear. I’ve always tried to embrace the good, to find something, a rock, something stable to hold on to, and when that thing appears, and is strong enough to be with us, it can act as a beacon to overcome the problems we endure.. people will say you never had a problem, if you do not tell them of your problems; yet if you feel that those were simply not problems, and just ideas in your life which existed within you at one time, than you may not believe in them either.
Of course some speak of ignorance, or they speak of the idea that forgetting or putting a problem aside will only allow it to consume them, then so be it, that’s simply another idea. Yet if those exact people knew that solutions exist merely as ideas which manifest, they may realize the power of true ignorance; who lives a life? The one who worries and fears the world, yet is educated; or the one who lives and smiles, dancing in the night and making love, yet is ignorant to the fact of some upcoming problem? The idea can bounce around back and forth forever, but so can the solution to what we know, so why speak to anyone in a bad way, when we could say a nice thing; or be happy that a good person is in our life, and by conveying a nice idea to them, can bring them a smile, which can come back upon us? All we say or do is a conveyance of ideas, and some people can manifest good if they are brought good, take a chance that the person who loves or even cares for you as a friend can bring you good, forget the problem and live.
Beyond this most people sadly believe that living is leaving their house, or leaving themselves, to become someone else, they believe travelling or doing activities, or engaging in things is living; but living occurs, until we die. And then we live again, so death is simply the act of forgetting about life; you can sit in a chair all your life and live, if you are happy, and many people do this; and live amazing lives. Yet beyond this yet again is life, the forgetful act of death, going beyond the heads of most is this idea, when a spirit forgets death, it is reborn. Because nothing can be destroyed, we travel on! So don’t just live to die, forget about death and live; I suppose it’s easier to say than to do for some, but I live tonight, because I write this without thought; and you can see the solution in it, if you look closely, and with innocence, with eyes open and full of life. If you want it.
Live.. you aren’t old, you aren’t dead, forget the problem, and the solution is yours..
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Thanks for another fine post that I mostly agree with, although I’m still struggling with the compounded sentences
P1- I’ll go back to earlier comments and say that there are truths which do exist, whether the person at the time percieves them or not, or mis-labels them as something else. People used to mis-label earthquakes and famines as “Gods Wrath.” (nowdays people complain that hurricanes are a sign of global warming!) People are creative at trying to attribute some greater meaning to their lives but in reality an earthquake is usually just an earthquake.
P2- This is a complex paragraph but I agree that we get to pick and choose whether to focus on the good or bad aspects of life. I disagree that there is always a solution that will appear, but I do agree that there are alternatives that we often overlook because we focus too hard on our “problem.” Some problems will still have no solution and often the biggest hurdle is for people to just accept the problem for what it is, and adapt their minds to it. Dwelling on a problem gets people nowhere. They can still live and move on while living with the problem. Life will not be perfect for 99.99% of us.
P3- Agree 100% with the spirit of this. Life moves naturally towards goodness. Chaos is chaotic and exists only temporarily. Goodness, by definition, builds upon itself and self-organizes to lay the foundation of better futures for all. Sugar may disagree with me on this, but I don’t believe in a world that has to be 50% good and 50% bad, in order for us to understand goodness properly. ex- Honeybees don’t have languange, but have evolved through trial error to communicate to one another through hive “dances,” which communicate the location of sugar supplies (flowers) to the other bees. They’ve been doing that for a million years before any human came along to explain how they dis it. They evolved through trial-and-error to do this, and the rules of science existed the entire time, and just needed to be conveyed to other bees so that the “good” outcome could be achielved. Along the way there were probably a billion chaotic outcomes which didn’t work. I believe goodness is an actual force in nature or science itself (like gravity) and that life simply responds to its presence. Just my opinion.
P4- I enjoy your optimism but I believe that when I die I’m not coming back, so I have a unique opportunity right here and now. I’m alive today, and I exist, and I’ve come to realize that society (in general) is not my friend and wants to cause me harm and self-doubt and to knock me down a few pegs along the way. I took me half a lifetime to realize this, but I’m still a better person for it. I spent the first half of my life just like you said– leaving my house in the morning to go to work to do whatever other people wanted done. Now I go to work with my eyes wide open, and when I leave work I look to the world searching for the same sort of zest for life, but I find nothing out there.
So thanks for writing, and though I struggle with your sentence structure at times I’m still glad for the conversation!
Before I add my two cents, I would just like to clarify some things you written…
“I know how to exist, and how to live; the power comes from the idea of overcoming the problems we have, not by forgetting them, but realizing that they exist whether we know they do or have never heard of them ever before.”
From reading the above, I understand that we are supposed to deal with our problem, not just try to forget about them because that will not make them go away? Correct? Or no?
“Live.. you aren’t old, you aren’t dead, forget the problem, and the solution is yours..”
Then at the end you want us to forget the problem?
“So don’t just live to die, forget about death and live;”
I rather always thought that the best way to live really is to accept death. To accept that it is part of living. Because if you ‘forget’ death, every time it happens (which is everyday) but any time it happens close to you, you’re back to where you started form.
It’s kind of hard to forget about something that happens every single day.
I think it’s alright to be sad, cry, feel like your heart is tearing apart when someone you love dies, but also understanding that it’s part of ‘living’ helps ease the pain (once you get over the big picture).
I can personally say it’s not easy because I went through it before. There times when I shock up when I think of how I will not ‘exist’ in the sense of how I am at the moment. But those are moments, every time I come out of it, make me stronger and want to live life to the fullest.
My Grandmother, simply asked me why am I running or afraid of something that for ‘truth’ and ‘fact’ is going to happen? She told me the only way to live is to accept death. Know that every death brings a new birth.
Sugar, I had the same questions about the language in this piece, which jumps back and forth to defend both sides of the argument. But I think the “spirit” of this essay said the following:
We DO need to acknowledge the probelems in our lives, but at the end of the day, we need to move on and don’t give too much credit to the badness. I’m paraphrasing ABlue111, but I think this was the tone he was going for.
But I’m just guessing… there is no way to decipher sentences like these:
“We are here for reasons we do not know… some of us try to know, yet fail; because of the way we grow. We feel that we know something, anything, for true, we don’t really care for the proper reasons though, and some day we will forget what we believe we know, so that thing is not true; and does not exist.”
I agree with his overall tone, even if the sentence structure he uses ties me into knots!
I also wonder where he got the “proper reasons” for knowing about life, while the rest of us dolts were screwing around and scratching our asses the entire time…
I have read complex explanations of life and existence but never as contradictory as this short story. I believe it is as much a comment about your complex life as it is about what existence is.
Please do not take this the wrong way I do like your writing, please keep writing.
I have different ideas about life and why I exist and where I am going after I die. We are all on this earth for reasons that would take more space and time to explain than we have on this web site.
I do believe that problems are solved not by forgetting them and letting something solve them or make them go away but taking action and either solving them or accepting them and moving on with life.
The same way that if you sit in a room and think happy thought you will be happy and in some instances achieve nirvana is a bunch of hogwash unless you go out and take action you achieve nothing.
Be thankful for what you have because if you are not happy with what you have you will never be happy with anything. Also do not stop trying to get further and higher, richer because that is what keeps life moving.
As Deepak Chopra has in many of his writings “we live from thought to thought and when when we are between thoughts we have bliss and are in suspended animation in time and space seamed to have stopped” (these are my words as I understand him)
I agree with your last paragraph when you die you will be reborn not in body but in spirit and live forever in a better place. The question that everyone asks is prove it and that is why they fail because there is no answer.
Thanks for making me think.
Thanks Chrisd, for coming out of the blue to add a few more thoughts along the way!
I’m paraphrasing ABlue111, but I feel that he has the same zest and zeal for life as you do. We are all just using different words to get to the same place…
Contrary to Deepak Chopra, I think that sometimes our best moments of bliss come from expressing our thoughts, rather than our from our idle moments in time and space.
jpd- having fun and enjoying the conversation!
Sorry about the sentence structure.. I write as I speak, sometimes it turns out badly lol.. anyway..
Here is a breakdown of these sentences.
“We are here for reasons we do not know… ” – We do not know why we are here, but there are reasons for us to be here.. one way or another.
“some of us try to know, yet fail; because of the way we grow.” – Some people overanalyze their lives because of the way they have grown up, they believe that to categorize everything and give everything a label is to do good, when in reality the people who are truly the happiest in the world are the ones who just live, and don’t question everything.
“We feel that we know something, anything, for true,” – We believe that the experiences of our lives, or the things we learn or do are truthful, simply because we experience them.
“we don’t really care for the proper reasons though, and some day we will forget what we believe we know, so that thing is not true; and does not exist.” – If we forget something, did we ever truly know that thing? If we are forgotten, did we ever exist… If we have an idea in our mind, and we do not tell anyone of it, and then we die; did that idea ever truly exist?
The point I am getting at with this entire article is the idea that we don’t have to live by anyone’s rules but our own. There will be consequences for sure when living a life which is different than everyone else’s. If we live and are a ‘great person’ in the eyes of the world, we may be remembered for a while when we die, or we may not. If I held this article in my mind then died… it wouldn’t have existed. Imagine all of the things which never exist until we see them for ourselves, and then imagine all the things we never see, or never know; and then ask yourself if those things truly exist.
I’m still agreeing with your essay…
I bet you’ve discovered along the way that you can pretty much do or say anything with your life. That life wasn’t as restrictive as you initially thought it was. There is no down-side to expressing your opinions.
I think most of the limitations we feel in life are self-imposed. Our burdens are never as big as we think they are, and our pains (while real) are nothing which prevents us from enjoying our days.
That’s what I take-away from your essays, as I read them.