We give life to everything. For without life, there is no movement, motion, or noticeable energy. We give life to:
•clothes & accessories we wear
•moving vehicles (as the conductor and passengers)
•stores, apartments, buildings in general
•computer devices & appliances
•media & information
•sound
•war/peace
•community
•color
•museums & other attractions
Everything within and around us reflects life. We, in our individual worldly bubbles, move around with our identities reflected by personal preferences and choices. We identify ourselves by our skin color, hair texture, political/religious beliefs, favorite music genre, fashion sense, hobbies, the time period we’ve lived through, and locations where we were born or currently reside. We say these are what makes us who we are. But without any of those who are we really?
Who would we be if we dropped identification with our material personal reality? If we stopped all the comparisons and contrasts and measuring of the differences of one another? If we gathered around with NO THING, NO ONE, NO WHERE, and NO TIME to discuss?
We would discover something very shocking:
We are no different from one another. We are the same, no matter what our outward material appearance may present. Our personality and differences are merely illusions we live by to give us “purpose” to cope with existing through space and time.
Through innate survival mechanisms, we seek food & water to keep our meat vessels alive and moving. Once that is met what else is there to do? This is what our ancestors way back before civilization was created had to discover and figure out. What do we do with the remaining time that we have left when all our needs are met?
Mr. Meseeks from Rick & Morty exemplifies this especially. It is in Mr. Meseeks' nature to complete the task they are assigned to then cease existence. While alive, they do their very best to complete their intended tasks because the longer they live, they suffer painfully and become more deranged and unhinged. This occurs when something is outside of their capabilities. As they become more insane over time, they will then start to blame and point fingers at each other for the reason they can’t die in peace. In their debut episode, they proceed to think the only way to get their desire fulfilled is to kill their taskmaster.
Mr. Meseeks is a reflection of our nature to complete tasks and fulfill our purpose. The difference is that once they complete their singular task, they get to die while we continue living through space and time. To them, existence in the realm of time is excruciating as they’re just meant to bridge one reality to the next (i.e. from undone task to completed task). Friedrich Nietzsche said, “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” Mr. Meseeks showcases this very saying as they quite literally suffer as they perpetuate in existence. Without any other reason to complete their task, they have no point to exist and thereby evaporate out of existence. It is not in our nature, however, to just poof out of reality unless our body is no longer able to house our mind/spirit/soul/awareness.
As aforementioned, our initial tasks were food & water. Then as we continued to live, we experienced danger/suffering from weather & environmental conditions as well as potential predators that pushed us to create shelter and clothing. The need for food & water also does not disappear and has to continually be met along with the new requirements of shelter & clothing. Soon enough we developed tools to assist us in our constant need for survival. Communication developed as well as societal roles and delegation to contribute to the overall well-being of humanity. From these foundations, we have escalated through thousands of generations to the existence we have today in the age of information and technology. Through created systems, now internet and technology access has become part of our needs. We have elevated into the need for self-expression and aesthetics. We continue to develop as these entities in search of our reason for being here.
We dedicate ourselves to career, family, art & creativity, religion/spirituality, helping others, etc. All in pursuit of there being some reason to continue through the suffering that exists. We find peace in the suffering. We work and spend our hours at a job to make enough money to support our survival as well as to fuel our individual desired experiences through entertainment in all its forms. We find ways to hold our attention in space-time, so we don’t As we also kill one another over materials like money, land, or resources or for more abstract possessions like power and status, we also build nurseries, hospitals, homes, and environments to raise and heal ourselves. What an interesting dichotomy.
In the grand scheme of it all, there is no purpose but to live in accordance with the higher power that moves us. It is in our nature to seek and want more. This is how we’ve grown and evolved so far as a species. In this grand scheme of no particular purpose, it also means that everything has a purpose and is exactly how it’s meant to be in creation. From the sun shining light to humanity’s creative destruction, it is all going accordingly according to the will of nature.
The control we imagine we have in our lives is an illusion, as we move in the course that has already been laid out for us to follow. So many different outcomes, and so many different realities. What is the one that you choose? Or better yet, what has been chosen for you? For we are all chosen and favored to be here in this realm of space and time. We are the awareness observing these natural phenomena of existence.
What an amazing thing to be a part of….
I'll leave off with this quote from Shakespeare,
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
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