27/09/2008

On Meaning of/or in Life

Meaning of life is a long and widely debated topic, however I'm not going to discuss it under Absurdist or Nihilist perceptions, or any likes of them.

All human species create or seek purposes and meanings for their lives, which is perfectly understandable since they come to life without having any sense of it. One might even say
human birth is a quite insignificant way to come to life, if ofcourse, you're the one that comes to life in that particular birth. (I certainly think birth is a perfect example in this matter)

Basically, unless you're the one giving the birth, there is nothing special about it. Giving birth to someone on the other hand, is generally a milestone in human life, and even may be a goal in their lives to achieve
, which almost makes it a meaning of life. (if not only a part of it)

But then again, achieved goals are generally replaced with new ones. Even though that one particular goal was a big part of their lives, they recognize it only for a while, and when the other goal becomes more and more concrete, the previous one becomes more and more abstract.


Let's stop here for a second;


So one might say, the ones who are following the code of so called Carpe Diem, are the ones who are living the present, and therefore the most concrete part of their space-time contiuum.

And one might also say that the past's concreteness/abstractness can be in various amounts differing from one to the other. (Hence the expression: Living in the past)

Although I believe as people get old (60+) generally their past becomes more concrete then the present. That's a completely different topic which I'll discuss later on...


So, I presented the reader with an illustration. And as you can see the value of concreteness is full in the present, variable in the past, and null in the future.

I think I must add; the so-called 'future plans' of humans (which you might think that it could be effective on the concreteness of the future) are in fact abstract and most of the time protects it's capricious nature. (long awaited promotions and huge plans of success are failing people as life goes on)

So, stuck in the present, humans desperately seek for a/the meaning in/of life. Completely unaware of the fact that what they experienced before present is actually forming a great part of the meaning they are looking for. (Depending on age and life-span)

And since most of them don't know when they are going to die, which ends the sequence of life (or perhaps only the future and maybe the present), and therefore abstractness of it, they never really know how much of that meaning they managed to unfold.

So the exact moment the sequence ends, the sequence called life, they're at last free of abstractness of the future in their sequence, there is still a great amount of abstractness in their past, not to mention the end of the sequence pretty much makes the search for it's meaning absurd.

Which prooves that the meaning of the life sequence is actually capricious, always changing, never becoming stable. Even with the end of it, which stops the sequence and makes it stable, there is still a vast amount of abstractness in it. Eventually making the sequence only as concrete as a dream.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

dude, thats so deep that it makes me want to hurl my insides at you...
-B-

Septimus said...

Thank you Benjy, that's probably one of the most constructive comments I've ever had in years.