Tangible or Intangible?
The universe, our galaxy and our world are vast and unknown, just as vast and unknown as our minds. Needless to say, that we don’t make it any easier by adapting complex understandings of our own existence and thinking. We search for answers to questions that have already been answered long before our births, and we frown upon the dissatisfaction of not being told what we want to hear.
Such is the human mind. We are habits more than we are people. We judge and point fingers at others when we as individuals fail to learn our true nature.
We don’t have to be just one thing. We don’t have to go in search of our true self. We are an ever changing and evolving species; our attitude today might not mirror our attitude yesterday and it will certainly not discern our attitude tomorrow.
Seeking what is honest to your being without getting lost in the world of materialistic expectation and denomination is hard, but it is the world we live in. No one will hold your hand and tell you it will be easy, at some point your words will be used against you, ideals will be forced upon you by communities who seek to establish political correctness for trivial things, and society will frown upon your choices, but that’s when you need to rise above it all. You have to choose to be an answer rather than a question, a solution rather than a problem, a comfort rather than a discomfort, a light rather than a darkness.
Sure, be complex, but be as soft and easy as the wind. Go ahead, get to know yourself, but try not to push yourself to point where you lose who you are.
We sometimes seek to blur the lines between the intangible and the tangible. We want to eliminate all that cannot be explained in the name of science. However, what if science is just a quantum structure of the intangible. We are trapped by either the idea of being free, or worldly knowledge, or the vastness of the unknown. We are oppressed by our own minds; the only difference is that it’s called different things for different people.
And yes, there are otherworldly things just as real as science, but our logical thinking, to which we are slaves, prevents us from acknowledging them fully. We prefer to quantify the intangible by labelling everything and materializing what we cannot understand. We say there is no god, no spirituality and no otherworldly things, yet things happened which cannot always be explained by logic or science. We refuse the basis of our existence, still trying to find out the secret of the universe’s existence. We desperately want to understand which came first, so science develops theories, but still we are riddled with unanswered questions.
Choosing to believe beyond tangible reasoning isn’t freedom, but nor is it stupidity. Simply because believing in something helps us cope with who we are, why we are here and where we want to be. Freedom is as much a burden as anything worldly, but what keeps us afoot are our choices and our beliefs.
We think science is definite because it provides certain answers, but science is like a scoop of ice cream in a very large sundae special. We cannot confine ourselves, our surroundings and the universe within science. We are more than that. Our minds are complex lay lines and currents, beyond the scope of scientific discovery. Because until now, scientists have still yet to understand where consciousness comes from and how the human brain truly functions. Yes, we’ve touched the tip, but the profound understanding is something intangible. No science can tell you why you are human, why you think the way you do, or why you look the way you look. Although many have tried to force definitions and explanation into the human existence, it is still something vastly unexplored, much like our planet.
We tie ourselves down with definitions and explanations when we are more than one thing. We are human beings, yes. But we are also the world we live in; we are part of the universe, not just organisms living within it. We are also spirits within the energy that makes up the intangible.
We oppress ourselves. Be it freedom, science or otherworldly. We oppress ourselves because we are so desperate to find the meaning to life. However, no one will truly ever know that, because each individual, each organism, each spiritual being has their own experience. Be it bad or good.