Know thyself

I had the strong feeling today that I am once more slipstreaming through daily life as an individual alone in this world, behind a bunch of other individuals trying do the same thing I’m trying to do, which is go somewhere. I mean that metaphorically and not literally; meaning we are trying to do something with our lives, not physically move from where we live to someplace else. After all, we’re not some sort of hive mind like the borg, or soldier ants, or bees, or any of those other hive beasties. No, instead we’re all unique in mind and body and we all are trying to acheive something in some way that makes sense to us.

I had a lot of different conversations today with lots of different friends and a relative, and I heard about how every single one of those people was trying to do something, or was looking at life in some particular way. I talked about some of these people to other people, and other people to yet other people. Some people would laugh, or show concern at the actions of others and some wouldn’t understand at all why someone would do something like the other was doing. There wasn’t much in the way of common ground except for one thing; we all wake up in the morning and do something!

I used to spend time in my younger years trying to do things that others would approve of, for whatever reason. I guess to some extent it was because I wanted to do things that others would consider worthwhile and give some measure of respect for. But seeing life in the light that was being cast today by my thoughts, I see that really the only person who our lives are going to make any sense to is ourselves, so the judgement of others isn’t a measure of anything meaningful. However this thinking also reveals another truth. By understanding our own life in a more complete way, we can live our life to our highest personal ideals, and acheive those things that most matter to us. Such a life would be one of total fulfilment and been seen as worthwhile by those who had acheived the same understanding in their own lives. The opinion of those who have not made such a leap of understanding should only be heard as silence to our own ears, for such things would be worth nothing.

“Know thyself”! (Bonus points if you can tell me what movie this is out of and where it was seen!)

I’ll think about this some more I think.

Padwanna!

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