The Significance of Challenges
Sometimes I worry I'll end up like Van Gogh, who saw the beauty in things around him despite his own struggles, translated it on canvas and no one understood him until he was gone. Then I snap out of it and realize even this might be wishing too much.
A step back. How much does this all matter? My personal battles, my feelings of being not understood. To me, obviously, they feel at that moment very important, but how much does an individual's setback matter? Someone has a bad day. The cake fell on the floor when taking it out of the oven. A stolen bike. A tick already with its jaws buried in the scalp. Someone not taking your feelings in consideration. Sickness. Loss. Bad hair day. From minor to major and back, the whole spectrum ever present.
You only need to go to space and our Earthly problems gets insignificant very fast. You only need to go forward in time and in a blink of an eye the individual struggles become absolutely meaningless. With more time the planetary struggles become unimportant, too. It's Earth and it'll go on whether we're here or not, until the moment it doesn't, and even still in the grand scheme of things, our tiny Earth's faith is not essential for the entire existence.
When faced with hard times in the present moment, you can't jump forward in time to get over it sooner. The comfort in the words time will heal isn't in the present, it's in the future point when you are able to look back more objectively. However, observing the significance of struggles from a base reality point of view will help us gain some perspective. Base reality is the only true reality and the rest are countless simulations.
Let me explain by using these masterfully carved words:
It's not at all far fetched to think we might already be living in a simulation. As a matter of fact, the odds are billions to one that this life we are all taking part of, is the base reality. We now understand it's only a matter of time when we can't tell the difference between a game and our reality, so who is to say ours already isn't. So I'll ask again, how much struggling matters? REALLY matter when the odds of them even being real aren't in their favor?
In space and with time they don't, but here and now they do whether this is real or just feels real.
From a simulated reality point of view, which is more likely to be our reality, you shouldn't worry about the struggles. You should learn how to respond to them, because whenever challenges are there, they must hold a meaning. It's all a part of what we call life and by existing you're participating, so make it count.
And if this is base reality, then think of the theory about how the rising level of water possibly got that first monkey descending from the tree walking. It didn't want to drown, so it walked in water keeping its head above the surface. Its struggle and ingenuity not only changed its life, it affected the world far in the future.
Real or simulated, here and now, the challenges you face are always temporary, and are there either for your benefit, or the mankind's. Yes, they matter. For now.
A step back. How much does this all matter? My personal battles, my feelings of being not understood. To me, obviously, they feel at that moment very important, but how much does an individual's setback matter? Someone has a bad day. The cake fell on the floor when taking it out of the oven. A stolen bike. A tick already with its jaws buried in the scalp. Someone not taking your feelings in consideration. Sickness. Loss. Bad hair day. From minor to major and back, the whole spectrum ever present.
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| Not again, man... |
And the larger struggles. Failing policies. Terrorism. Climate change. How much do they matter?
You only need to go to space and our Earthly problems gets insignificant very fast. You only need to go forward in time and in a blink of an eye the individual struggles become absolutely meaningless. With more time the planetary struggles become unimportant, too. It's Earth and it'll go on whether we're here or not, until the moment it doesn't, and even still in the grand scheme of things, our tiny Earth's faith is not essential for the entire existence.
When faced with hard times in the present moment, you can't jump forward in time to get over it sooner. The comfort in the words time will heal isn't in the present, it's in the future point when you are able to look back more objectively. However, observing the significance of struggles from a base reality point of view will help us gain some perspective. Base reality is the only true reality and the rest are countless simulations.
Let me explain by using these masterfully carved words:
"Forty year ago we had Pong: two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now forty years later we have photo realistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it's getting better every year. Soon we will have virtual reality, augmented reality. If you assume any great improvement at all, then the game will become indistinguishable from reality. Even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is right now." Elon Musk at Code Conference 2016
It's not at all far fetched to think we might already be living in a simulation. As a matter of fact, the odds are billions to one that this life we are all taking part of, is the base reality. We now understand it's only a matter of time when we can't tell the difference between a game and our reality, so who is to say ours already isn't. So I'll ask again, how much struggling matters? REALLY matter when the odds of them even being real aren't in their favor?
In space and with time they don't, but here and now they do whether this is real or just feels real.
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| Somehow the wind feels quite real when riding a bike on a dyke. |
From a simulated reality point of view, which is more likely to be our reality, you shouldn't worry about the struggles. You should learn how to respond to them, because whenever challenges are there, they must hold a meaning. It's all a part of what we call life and by existing you're participating, so make it count.
And if this is base reality, then think of the theory about how the rising level of water possibly got that first monkey descending from the tree walking. It didn't want to drown, so it walked in water keeping its head above the surface. Its struggle and ingenuity not only changed its life, it affected the world far in the future.
Real or simulated, here and now, the challenges you face are always temporary, and are there either for your benefit, or the mankind's. Yes, they matter. For now.
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| Sometimes the best answer to a predictable upcoming challenge is a precedently applied protective layer. |
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