The most important thing in life

Hello,

It has been a very long time since I posted on this blog, due to various reasons, such as lack of sleep or other activities (e.g., work). I feel happy to be able to return here.

I haven't said it yet, but it is very important – the aim of this blog is to stretch my boundaries of thinking. Imagine, dear reader, the time when you were a child. If you were a bit like me (and who wasn't?), you thought that the very important things in your life were your toys – they were bought for you by your parents, you played with them, you may even have desired more of them (though I have usually been satisfied with what I had, again – for various reasons). One of the main reasons I was satisfied with the toys I had was that when I played with them, I saw no world around them. Therefore, I saw no other toys. You might laugh now, and it is great. All truth is great and this truth is the result of a logical operation in my mind, that started with another truth about me. You might think I am an honest person now. It's true for nothing is greater but the truth. However, what is the truth about you, dear reader? Do you even ask such a question? If you were a bit like me, then you sometimes experienced something impossible – the toys which were the center of your world suddenly began to lose their meaning, as if... boundaries of your little world stretched, encompassing more and more beautiful things. You might then wanted another set of toys, unless something totally unexpected happened – you lost your interest in the toys completely.

Lost interest in the toys completely? I thought so when I was younger, but is it really true? Isn't it that we all just have another sets of toys for the rest of our lives? Something so enbodied in our lives we don't even notice it's there? Let's see what conditions a toy must meet to be perfect, for only a toy which is perfect or close to it can be so embodied.

For a toy to be perfect, it must:

1) Shrink our view of the world, so that the toy appears to be the most important thing. Then, we assume that the toy is the best thing in the world (notice the confusion here: the shrinked version of the world is equivalent to the whole world in the mind of such person).

2) Give a sense of satisfaction, so that we don't want to play any other game. Because of 1), changing the game will be impossible until we recognize we are playing a game. That leads us to the third point.

3) Make impossible noticing it is a toy. In contrary, the toy appears to be the whole world.

Notice how all three points are interconnected. Those interconnections, along with the points, make a toy perfect. So is it logical to conclude that we are all playing the games in our lives? For me, it is. It is also perfectly allowable to say that the child plays a game of being a child – being a child is his perfect toy which he uses to play a game. The child doesn't know wellhe is a child, i.e., he may not be fully conscious of his childish behaviour. He or she assumes the only game he is playing is that with his physical toys which means those toys are far less perfect than his... game of life.

If being a child is a game, then also being in other times of life is a game. Therefore, it not possible to not play some game (it turns out we are all heavy gamers). The only logical conclusion is that life is a game.

Did you notice that we started to define what life is? Today (as yesterday) people often say: „life is unfair”, „life is difficult”. How many people on the street do you meet whose faces are lit up by a completely different, much more positive thought, e.g. „life is wonderful”? Go outside and see how many eyes shine because of this thought. I don't see many. Life is really what me make it.

Does it really say what life IS? Well, no. It is because a language is much more often used to describe day to day, mundane activities and thoughts than much deeper subjects, such as that which we are discussing. In the case of latter, the language becomes more and more difficult to avoid confusion and imprecise statements. What we just said about the life really means: „we decide the outcome of life”.

Imagine that you have a desk in front of you and are sitting comfortably on your chair. There may even be a night lamp turned on. On the desk, there are two true statements:

„Life is really what we make it”

and

„We decide the outcome of life”

The second statement is much more true as it avoids the problems with the language we discussed in the previous paragraph. The first statement, however, shows that we often trick ourselves into skipping the definition of life, as if life was so apparent it didn't need any definition. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to act all the time and associate the outcome of our actions with the life itself. It is also unfair for there are people whose outcome of lives are much better than our outcome. The widely known definitions of life by today's science, are indeed the results of such omissions. Look at some of those definitions of life supported by today's science:

„the period from birth to death” while simple, doesn't explain anything

„the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body” not only is not simple, but doesn't explain anything too

„a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings” very complicated. Also notice „principle or force” which are completely different things. There is also no apparent reason to conclude that life is a force. „Principle” also doesn't explain anything.

We can read all 20 definitions of life in Merriam Webster dictionary and... return to our previous life which means we didn't really learn the most important thing – what it is.

To really define a life, let's return to our most thuthful statement about it:

„We decide the outcome of life”

If this is true (try finding evidence pointing to contrary, I cannot), this means that life is a greatest power in the universe. Because it decides, it cannot be decided. Therefore, it is immortal because nothing can decide for it to die. The inability to decide anything about life by anything except the life itself leads us to conclusion that the creation of the universe was a decision made by life.

This leads to the true definition of life:

AN IMMORTAL SOURCE OF EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE UNIVERSE

However, if life is a source of everything, then life itself must be... nothing. Yes, you read it correctly. Otherwise, life would have to create itself which is illogical, therefore impossible. When I think about it, it is mind blowing because it means that nothing is the source of everything. It also is crystal clear when you see that you can't destroy nothing – nothing always has been and will alway s be. Therefore, nothing (life) has the power over everything that is.

Let's look further. The title of this article is „The most important thing life”. The most important thing in life is life itself (ha, try to refute this one, hint: „set theory”). Because life is nothing, this means that the most important thing in life is nothing and the most important thing in nothing is nothing. If this sound counterintuitive it is because of the already mentioned inadequacy of the language that becomes the more apparent, the more important subject it is applied to. When humans say about nothing, they really mean there is something but they don't really see it. Here, we are talking about real nothingness. Although logical, saying that the most important thing in life is nothing is not very satisfying, therefore we have to look at the issue from a different angle. Let's try.

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS THE KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES FROM UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT IS.

This is a statement that I have discovered a few seconds before writing it. Try disproving it, if you can. Bear in mind you would have to either find an error in my reasoning, which is possible (as I said, I'm stretching the boundaries of my thinking meaning I have not reached them yet) or supply a totally different reasoning (which seems harder for me, but may not be such for you, depending on your boundaries).

Let's see again. There comes an immense wisdom from knowing we are an immortal source of everything. As I said, this implicates the total power over everything. The total power means a complete wisdom for no one can be wiser than the person who has the power over everything (I mean real power, not assumed power such as in the case of politicians who trick people into thinking they have power, whereas they sometimes don't even know how to use a computer). This leads us too:

WE ARE THE SMARTEST BEINGS EVER POSSIBLE

You really are smarter than you have ever thought. Just to make it clear, imagine an actor who is playing a stupid blonde so perfectly he forgets who he really is. People watch movies that show other people making mistakes. An example would be a soap opera where you probably see people making a lot mistakes in their lives (I haven't really watched any, sorry). Based on those mistakes, the story continues. The soap opera would be boring if every actor played a perfectly smart individual. There would be no drama, no big emotions, no interested viewers, etc. Because living beings (humans among them) want the life to be interesting, fun, emotional, etc., they use their power over everything to decide they can be imperfect. This comes straight from the statement I already wrote: „we decide the outcome of life”.

You, however, have the power over everything, including discovering your real perfectness and this is why I wrote this article.

I think I will try stretching my boundaries of thinkning on the subject of life later on for nothing is more important in life than life itself.