As people, we're obsessed with the idea of definity, finality, knowing what's happening to absolute certainty, being able to put things to numbers, figures, shapes, sizes & Symmetry. The idea of abstract and obscure scares us, confuses us & thus is usually undesirable to the masses, not to mention the broad sense of perspective required to grasp the abstractness of things. Thus, it drives us away. This however, leaves a whole world of Abstractness, far bigger than the world of certainty & finality, left unexplored & unventured or atleast, least explored or least ventured, and in effect least understood too. Now that somehow does not sit too well with me.. Because it just doesn't seem fair, neither to me for depriving myself of such vast unexplored arenas of natural existance, nor to the abstractness in question for not being acknowledged and refuted right off its face value.
In the world as most of us know it however, a man in pursuit of abstraction is bound to face challenges, as good must be seperated from the bad and right must be differentiated from the wrong, as black from white, for our obsession with definity, and our tendencies to look for clear purpose and meaning in everything.
This so called idea of the real world however, isn't anything if not paradoxical & at sharp contrast with the reality of the real world, where good and bad not only co-exist, but often exist within the same entity. Where black & white are not only juxtaposed but often muddled up to a shade of grey. Which makes one question the entire concept of reality of this so called real world. Isn't this merely a world we've created to our convenient way of living, cause the truth( assuming there is something like an absolute truth in existance) is inconvenient, incomprehensive and often scary for our thinking and understanding. Cause it's a truth we'd rather not know, or even worse, acknowledge. The sad bit is, our acknowledgment & acceptance would make no difference to the reality in existance. The only thing it can affect is our own real/unreal lives. Question is, do we want that state of awareness, state of constant dillema, state of conciousness, state of inaction in our lives. I don't know the answere to that question for certain, but what I do know is the fact that I would rather live a harsh reality than is blissful hypothesis, for there can be no redemption without the knowledge of the truth. And if there is something to be dug into and explored, I don't intend to just pass by it.
In the world as most of us know it however, a man in pursuit of abstraction is bound to face challenges, as good must be seperated from the bad and right must be differentiated from the wrong, as black from white, for our obsession with definity, and our tendencies to look for clear purpose and meaning in everything.
This so called idea of the real world however, isn't anything if not paradoxical & at sharp contrast with the reality of the real world, where good and bad not only co-exist, but often exist within the same entity. Where black & white are not only juxtaposed but often muddled up to a shade of grey. Which makes one question the entire concept of reality of this so called real world. Isn't this merely a world we've created to our convenient way of living, cause the truth( assuming there is something like an absolute truth in existance) is inconvenient, incomprehensive and often scary for our thinking and understanding. Cause it's a truth we'd rather not know, or even worse, acknowledge. The sad bit is, our acknowledgment & acceptance would make no difference to the reality in existance. The only thing it can affect is our own real/unreal lives. Question is, do we want that state of awareness, state of constant dillema, state of conciousness, state of inaction in our lives. I don't know the answere to that question for certain, but what I do know is the fact that I would rather live a harsh reality than is blissful hypothesis, for there can be no redemption without the knowledge of the truth. And if there is something to be dug into and explored, I don't intend to just pass by it.
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