Peace in the unknown
A friend showed me an article recently about the existence of humans being a flaw due to a bunch of scientific facts that I can't exactly remember but I know they made a lot of sense at the time. I spent a while trying to locate the article so I could add it as a reference, but I couldn't find it.
For a while now, I've questioned the existence and the relevance of humans. We're inherently destructive and to a large extent, our existence makes almost no sense, like a flaw in nature.
Whenever I consider humanity's existence, I always consider my Christian upbringing and how far I've derailed from it with these thoughts. The creation story in the Bible no longer adds up for me and that somehow makes me feel guilty.
On the other hand, the realisation that all this means nothing makes me wonder why I bother with a lot of things. I could die today and absolutely nothing I've done up until this moment would matter.
The point of this is that - if all this doesn't matter, why bother trying? I'm not going to stop trying but if I found myself in a condition where things just stopped working, I don't know if I'll be as tensed as I used to be. I don't know if I care as much anymore.
As much as I love life, living and seeking the next adventure to make my heart race, I can't help but always be curious about death and what comes next. I'm not suicidal. I love waking every day and speaking to the people who make my heart warm but the life after death, if at all there is, makes me wonder.
I'm excited at my newly found peace in the unknown. It hasn't hindered my quests in life or my goals but it makes me feel at ease in many ways and that's a really good thing.
I really enjoyed this piece. I vividly remember when I saw life from a similar perspective...
I only wish you could have elaborated on some points a bit more. Like how you (or the article you read) feel humans are inherently destructive. Or why the Creation story no longer makes sense. It would have been interesting to hear more 🙂
Thank you for sharing!
The article didn't exactly state that humans are destructive but that's a fact that has been noted over time. Humans generally seek to destroy things we do not understand. We've done more destruction to our planet than creation.
Regarding the biblical creation story; it just seems mentally lazy. The human body is too complex to have simply been created through an act of speech. Our bodies are a result of a series of evolutionary adjustments that have helped us adapt to nature over centuries.