Seeking Truths of Life

There are something that will always remain a mystery. There is so much that we don’t know about this world. For example, what was it like before the big bang? How big is the universe or is it endless? What happened before there were no living beings? While scientists are still working on the unknown, it will take a lot more time or maybe we will never find the truth. Things about God, the journey after death, and before existence is unknown. We all have the curiosity of a cat and want to self-help to know about certain things.

What do we know?

Life is the piece of existence that processes evaluate, acts, reacts, and evolves through growth (reproduction and metabolism), through a new beginning. The key difference between life and non-life (or non-living things) is that life uses a force, energy, for physical and conscious development. Life is everything that grows and eventually dies, i.e., ceases to flourish and be cognizant.

So, can we say that viruses, for instance, are cognizant? Yes, insofar as they react to the stimulus; but they are alive fundamentally because they reproduce and grow. Computers are non-living for the reason that even though they can cognize, they do not expand biologically (grow), and cannot create offspring. It is not cognition that establishes life, then: it is rather production and maturation towards a state of death; and death happens only to living substances.

Questions like ‘what is the meaning (purpose) of life?’ among others to explore

It can be about positively doing common good. There are, of course, many intuitively clear examples of Doing Good: by retrieving a crying baby from a dumpster; or by trying to save somebody who’s drowning. Most of us would keep away from murdering; and most of us would avoid doing some acts that we find instinctively wrong. Going on a spiritual journey o find out the truth may seem a likely way.

Life in the pandemic

The pandemic has put a lot of things into perspective. People are learning the value of time, relationships, and life beyond materialistic things. They are starting to believe in the power of now. Many are frustrated as well as there is uncertainty all around. There is a weird sense of darkness about living and earning. Emotional intelligence and patience are tested.

Everyone has a different version of their truth. It may take a whole life or just one incident.

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