"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco
So this quote is like 100% true. People around the world are constantly trying to understand everything in the world. There are aways test being done to figure out all of the underlying mysteries and secrets of the Earth. But maybe they were meant to be left a mystery. Myabe the whole world and life as we know it is like one big magic trick. If you know how it is done and you understand all of the secrets and mechanics of how it works, then there is no more magic or amazement left. No more element of surprise, nothing new left to discover or wonder about. The magic trick has been spoiled. Because the magic is not in the knowing how it works. The magic is in having no idea how the magician does it and letting yourself be amazed. Maybe we've been going about life the wrong way. It's not meant to be solved or understood totally 100%. We're not supposed to understand the unknown, we're supposed to accept the unknown. Just know that it will always be there to amaze us. Don't look at the sunset in a scientific way, just be amazed by its beauty as it streaks across the sky. Granted, we have been blessed with amazing mindpower and that knowledge and ability to learn should be put to use, but to a different extent. New discoveries and understandings of our world have brought us many good things, such as medication and inventions, but many bad things as well, such has weapons of mass destruction and biochemical warfare. So what is gained? It seems as though the positive and negative balance each other out. I love learning new things and putting my new knowledge to use, but I also love jsut to sit back and realize how infinite the universe is and how I will never be able to have a grasp of the most miniscule part of it. That is what life is about. Realizing how large it is and how small, in comparison, we are to it, yet how we can make such a big difference.
- Umberto Eco
So this quote is like 100% true. People around the world are constantly trying to understand everything in the world. There are aways test being done to figure out all of the underlying mysteries and secrets of the Earth. But maybe they were meant to be left a mystery. Myabe the whole world and life as we know it is like one big magic trick. If you know how it is done and you understand all of the secrets and mechanics of how it works, then there is no more magic or amazement left. No more element of surprise, nothing new left to discover or wonder about. The magic trick has been spoiled. Because the magic is not in the knowing how it works. The magic is in having no idea how the magician does it and letting yourself be amazed. Maybe we've been going about life the wrong way. It's not meant to be solved or understood totally 100%. We're not supposed to understand the unknown, we're supposed to accept the unknown. Just know that it will always be there to amaze us. Don't look at the sunset in a scientific way, just be amazed by its beauty as it streaks across the sky. Granted, we have been blessed with amazing mindpower and that knowledge and ability to learn should be put to use, but to a different extent. New discoveries and understandings of our world have brought us many good things, such as medication and inventions, but many bad things as well, such has weapons of mass destruction and biochemical warfare. So what is gained? It seems as though the positive and negative balance each other out. I love learning new things and putting my new knowledge to use, but I also love jsut to sit back and realize how infinite the universe is and how I will never be able to have a grasp of the most miniscule part of it. That is what life is about. Realizing how large it is and how small, in comparison, we are to it, yet how we can make such a big difference.
That is amazing. That is life. Stop thinking, sit back, and be amazed
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