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There was nothing, then a big bang, then came us and so was born time.
Since the time we humans have started grasping the concept of time a lot of it has already been spent pondering over the concept of time travel. Not that it is just the object of interest of dejected whimsical waywards who want to rewrite their unruly wrongs but has also intrigued geniuses and scientists alike.
This is how the great Aristotle puts in perspective his understanding of time,
“Time is the most unknown of all unknown things.
Time is a measure of motion. All things in time measure all the time.”
Existence being limited holds time in high regard despite time being a mere reverberation of existence, meaning – we don’t exist because there exists time, there exists time because we do. If there was no existence there would be no time, just nothingness.
The urge to travel through time is rooted in our curiosity to know all that transpired before our time so that we can make more sense of what is, to alter mistakes of the past, and at times to relive a blissful moment in the past so as to alleviate the pain that renders the present unbearable. The urge to sneak a peek into the future is the consequence of our instinct to survive, rather our instincts to live as long as we wish to, if not forever.
No matter how much we obsess over it, not even a minor breakthrough has occurred in the field of time travel, or given the amount of confidential information that is held by governments all over the world, we can only hope! Yet there is no hope until it gets leaked and finds its way in the public domain. For now, we will have to make peace with the fact that there is only a one-way ticket to the future and multiple tickets to the past, yes you read that right. But you haven’t got it completely right yet since it has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with the miraculous masterpiece that is the human mind.
All of humanity’s creations from the very first wheel to the gigantic pyramids, before being breathed into existence were conceived by the human mind, unlike wheels and pyramids time travel is yet to be invented, and this is why it is only constricted to wishful thinking which further aggravates the suffering of the already ailing heart. The fix for it as hard as it is easy, which is rewiring of the brain. Tweaking the way we think, the way we relate with memories has a lot to do with how coherent we get at replacing anger and resentment with forgiveness and gratitude.
You will essentially feel like you are cheating yourself, you are cheating alright, but not yourself. What you are cheating is centuries of systemic indoctrination. Indoctrination through pervasive and arbitrary ideologies that fulfilled the needs of their fabricators, through some others that were instrumental in the past but are irrelevant today. The bending of human will at the behest of materialistic endeavours has further expedited desertion of the self, turning the walk to self-realisation into a climb up a steep hill.
This is where our unparalleled human system comes in. Buried within us is the ancient wisdom of all that transpired before us with those who came before us. Just like fossils, it is delicate yet resilient, with traces of wisdom that was at our ancestors’ disposal, what put us where we are today. Dig deep within to unearth the treasure of a lifetime that is you.
We all have been visiting the past for solace, more often than not the taste of disappointment prevailed. This taste eventually builds our appetite for disappointment, that we cook and serve ourselves in the future.
Break this vicious cycle, stop surviving for once and taste what it is like to live. And I promise you shall never want to go back to surviving ever again.
The virtual tickets to the past can only be cashed in on the thought train, something our minds keep driving involuntarily, on track when driven consciously, derails our sense of being when driven unconsciously.
The past exists in the present in the form of memory, though we do not have an impeccable memory we give it far less credit than it deserves and this is where we unknowingly let tragedy strike. Every memory irrespective of its nature is registered by the brain and if not large has definitely played a little yet decisive role in our present state of being. We might either believe in coincidences or not at all but our mind adheres strictly to the belief that ‘there are no coincidences’. Given our inability to feel and register our life experiences to their fullest extent owing to our spiritual and mindful ineptitude, we experience nostalgia, both positive and negative. It is possible to alleviate the suffering by enhancing our mind by rewiring it for happiness.
Either we can get over a setback after learning the lesson or survive in a constricted reality under it. The weight of our mistakes feeds our anger which in turn fuels the fire of resentment that burns down dignity and creativity to the ground. This translates to bitter social and inter-personal relationships throwing us down an unending spiral of self-loathing. Even worse, resentment robs us of our memories by flipping every positive experience to a negative one, this is because when negative our mind focuses on the lack of gratification in the present which exacerbates our suffering by making us long the gratifications of the past, effectively turning all happiness to disdain. The opposite is also true, when you rewire your brain for gratitude you turn every negative experience into a positive one by being able to look at lessons learnt rather than how it made you feel, and how you feel with yourself and about yourself has a major bearing on what tickets you buy to the future.
“You cannot change the past but you can always change how it makes you feel.”
You don’t have to get rid of the past, just rewrite it so that you and the past can live at ease with and in the present.
Just as thoughts are our virtual ticket to the past we want, karma is what helps us cruise the turbulent sea of the present, the better you get at being mindful more often your thoughts start resonating with your sense of being and your actions with your thoughts. Agreed that it is impossible to create a future identical to the one in our thoughts, how meaningless would life be if we could. We need to choose to enjoy the most beautiful of sunrises and sunsets and feeling the cold and at times the harsh breeze over our skins over dying a slow painful death in the deadly hallows of self-doubt and self-pity.
The ship to the future is rowed by actions but is steered by the winds of imagination, keeping our imaginations in check will ensure our ships takes to the shores of our desires as we manifest them. While wishful thinking is the thick fog that prevents us from noticing our torn sails as we draw close, ready to be devoured by the vortex that is unattainability, into a world of fiction where all life, including that of your thoughts, ceases to exist.
Unlearn! Relearn!! Live Free!!!
By feels_write
Feb 11, 2020
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There was nothing, then a big bang, then came us and so was born time.
Since the time we humans have started grasping the concept of time a lot of it has already been spent pondering over the concept of time travel. Not that it is just the object of interest of dejected whimsical waywards who want to rewrite their unruly wrongs but has also intrigued geniuses and scientists alike.
This is how the great Aristotle puts in perspective his understanding of time,
“Time is the most unknown of all unknown things.
Time is a measure of motion. All things in time measure all the time.”
Existence being limited holds time in high regard despite time being a mere reverberation of existence, meaning – we don’t exist because there exists time, there exists time because we do. If there was no existence there would be no time, just nothingness.
The urge to travel through time is rooted in our curiosity to know all that transpired before our time so that we can make more sense of what is, to alter mistakes of the past, and at times to relive a blissful moment in the past so as to alleviate the pain that renders the present unbearable. The urge to sneak a peek into the future is the consequence of our instinct to survive, rather our instincts to live as long as we wish to, if not forever.
No matter how much we obsess over it, not even a minor breakthrough has occurred in the field of time travel, or given the amount of confidential information that is held by governments all over the world, we can only hope! Yet there is no hope until it gets leaked and finds its way in the public domain. For now, we will have to make peace with the fact that there is only a one-way ticket to the future and multiple tickets to the past, yes you read that right. But you haven’t got it completely right yet since it has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with the miraculous masterpiece that is the human mind.
All of humanity’s creations from the very first wheel to the gigantic pyramids, before being breathed into existence were conceived by the human mind, unlike wheels and pyramids time travel is yet to be invented, and this is why it is only constricted to wishful thinking which further aggravates the suffering of the already ailing heart. The fix for it as hard as it is easy, which is rewiring of the brain. Tweaking the way we think, the way we relate with memories has a lot to do with how coherent we get at replacing anger and resentment with forgiveness and gratitude.
You will essentially feel like you are cheating yourself, you are cheating alright, but not yourself. What you are cheating is centuries of systemic indoctrination. Indoctrination through pervasive and arbitrary ideologies that fulfilled the needs of their fabricators, through some others that were instrumental in the past but are irrelevant today. The bending of human will at the behest of materialistic endeavours has further expedited desertion of the self, turning the walk to self-realisation into a climb up a steep hill.
This is where our unparalleled human system comes in. Buried within us is the ancient wisdom of all that transpired before us with those who came before us. Just like fossils, it is delicate yet resilient, with traces of wisdom that was at our ancestors’ disposal, what put us where we are today. Dig deep within to unearth the treasure of a lifetime that is you.
We all have been visiting the past for solace, more often than not the taste of disappointment prevailed. This taste eventually builds our appetite for disappointment, that we cook and serve ourselves in the future.
Break this vicious cycle, stop surviving for once and taste what it is like to live. And I promise you shall never want to go back to surviving ever again.
The virtual tickets to the past can only be cashed in on the thought train, something our minds keep driving involuntarily, on track when driven consciously, derails our sense of being when driven unconsciously.
The past exists in the present in the form of memory, though we do not have an impeccable memory we give it far less credit than it deserves and this is where we unknowingly let tragedy strike. Every memory irrespective of its nature is registered by the brain and if not large has definitely played a little yet decisive role in our present state of being. We might either believe in coincidences or not at all but our mind adheres strictly to the belief that ‘there are no coincidences’. Given our inability to feel and register our life experiences to their fullest extent owing to our spiritual and mindful ineptitude, we experience nostalgia, both positive and negative. It is possible to alleviate the suffering by enhancing our mind by rewiring it for happiness.
Either we can get over a setback after learning the lesson or survive in a constricted reality under it. The weight of our mistakes feeds our anger which in turn fuels the fire of resentment that burns down dignity and creativity to the ground. This translates to bitter social and inter-personal relationships throwing us down an unending spiral of self-loathing. Even worse, resentment robs us of our memories by flipping every positive experience to a negative one, this is because when negative our mind focuses on the lack of gratification in the present which exacerbates our suffering by making us long the gratifications of the past, effectively turning all happiness to disdain. The opposite is also true, when you rewire your brain for gratitude you turn every negative experience into a positive one by being able to look at lessons learnt rather than how it made you feel, and how you feel with yourself and about yourself has a major bearing on what tickets you buy to the future.
“You cannot change the past but you can always change how it makes you feel.”
You don’t have to get rid of the past, just rewrite it so that you and the past can live at ease with and in the present.
Just as thoughts are our virtual ticket to the past we want, karma is what helps us cruise the turbulent sea of the present, the better you get at being mindful more often your thoughts start resonating with your sense of being and your actions with your thoughts. Agreed that it is impossible to create a future identical to the one in our thoughts, how meaningless would life be if we could. We need to choose to enjoy the most beautiful of sunrises and sunsets and feeling the cold and at times the harsh breeze over our skins over dying a slow painful death in the deadly hallows of self-doubt and self-pity.
The ship to the future is rowed by actions but is steered by the winds of imagination, keeping our imaginations in check will ensure our ships takes to the shores of our desires as we manifest them. While wishful thinking is the thick fog that prevents us from noticing our torn sails as we draw close, ready to be devoured by the vortex that is unattainability, into a world of fiction where all life, including that of your thoughts, ceases to exist.
Unlearn! Relearn!! Live Free!!!
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