If the Mayan calendar comes true for 2012…then the world might end by the end of December this year. Whether by asteroid, war or plague all the history, evolution, wisdom and knowledge achieved over millions of years would come to naught. This experiment, this Earth would cease. If an asteroid of sufficient size should blast our planet into dust there would be no record that this tiny, insignificant “speck” (in an infinite Universe of specks) ever existed at all. Quite a sobering thought for the first day of a new year.
My next thought was…then what’s the point? What is the point of all this history, all this drama, all this wisdom and all this learning and evolution, if we disappear and there is no one to mourn our demise, let alone notice us missing in this vast cosmos? What is the significance of our ever being? What would be the meaning of our ever having lived? The enormity of space and time seems overwhelming when viewed from isolation and such “smallness.”
Life and my very being makes no sense. I’m here now, but in an instant my physical body, the trees, the majestic snow covered mountains and the very air I breathe could be reduced to dust blowing into outer space, leaving no trace. My mind races to find some sort of answer to why we exist. Where is the meaning of life and its history, if everything could be wiped “clean” in an instant? Could it all be some sort of an illusion, a joke?
Science says that energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed. They can only change state going from one to the other. Matter and energy are one (E=MC²). If we see ourselves as beings with shape and form and separated from the Universe, if we see our world as solid and finite…then life, as we know it, as we experience it with our 5 senses, makes little sense at all. Experience says all matter decomposes, turns to dust and “disappears” given enough time. It changes state. If we base our reality on shape, form and time, then life is but an illusion, but if we can imagine a larger view where we are One with all that is and ever was…we become infinite. Now shape and form and history and planets and time…don’t matter. We remember that there is a collective Universal mind that holds it all and “we” are already there.
Happy New Year 2012! Bring it on!
Food for THOUGHT…
1 comment:
Deep thoughts for the new year! Another perspective - even if our "world" ended, our lives wouldn't have been meaningless. Each day we create meaning through our kind words and deeds, through the love we give to others, through the beauty we add to the world. Just because that comes to an end doesn't mean that was a waste of time or that our lives were meaningless. Each day is a new opportunity to add meaning to our lives and to the world. May this day be a good one!
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