Learn, Think & Do

This is not what you think it is, yet it is, what it is. For the math looks complicated and intimidating however it is simple, may not be straightforward though. While the life as we know, it looks simple whereas it is highly convoluted so much so that all kinds of mathematics fails to explain it, and that is why we do philosophy (not to offend philosophers, keep in mind that I am a simpleton), because not everything is under the purview of logic and science, not everything is measurable even the math says so! For example, I have no idea how I came about writing this article, I was sitting peacefully on a garden bench and suddenly saw signs in the garden, which I see everyday, I saw people roaming, not walking, which also happens everyday, yet today was special.

“How was it special, HD?”, you might ask. For the starters, there were less people, ample time to be on your own with one’s own empty head. And there I was making connections, metaphors without any effort. Enough about me, me,…

That Garden today presented to me its form you can say. It was life like. People in garden represented all the life forms, signs represented all the things you could imagine for example a language, and now imagine you know only English while I know only Sanskrit, the signs are in Sanskrit, only language no other symbols. Can you make anything out of it? Even if it is clearly in front of you, you are like a hippo (no shame I love hippos) who doesn’t know what it is. You roam around looking at it, thinking what on earth this stupid sign means if you are paying any attention otherwise you have no idea that sign even exists. That’s how most humans (let’s leave other animals out of it because we are THE intelligent ones, at least this is what large majority believes) if not all live their life, I included. And there are some wise people visible or may be invisible who knows, they observe you, in the same way you observe other animals with curiosity. They understand the meaning of that sign, they might help you sometimes but mostly they ignore you, law of nature, your struggles are mostly only yours to fight, if you want to survive fight it out, not with the nature but with your own nature and mind. Now imagine the boundaries of the garden is infinite, no one has any clue from where all the people come and all the people go back or go extinct or come from nowhere and go to nowhere but actually for the most people interesting aspect is not this but the theories or judgements they form about others, the infinite garden. All those who believe in one theory pick up one part of the garden and others obviously their enemies or at least they develop us vs them if not completely opposed to each other. Mind you this is not just limited to what you are thinking, it is in almost every person you might have met or you will meet in some or other form, for example intelligent (in some domain, let’s say social education) people think highly of their types but not so much of others who do not believe what they believe. Now in garden the most lively people to watch out are, obviously, children below 4-5 may be, after that they tend to be like their parents or guardians. Almost everyone (yup only almost, don’t always think that your child is cute to everyone) feels good around them, now imagine the child behaves the same way just that child is now of 20 years old. Now the whole adults (they are not actually whole adults, they have just learnt to suppress their childish behaviour) who loved the child when that was little, now frown about new generation. Sometimes I do the same but then I am an optimist for the most of the time, so I see it as like all that has already happened in the past and believe this is going to be a better generation on average, there would be some outliers on both the sides, yet I think it is skewed towards better, hope I am not wrong and if I am, I would not be alive to see that day (I guess). Actually what we should be doing is asking children for guidance but we don’t, we fill their heads with our own biases, experiences and negativities even if our intentions are not wrong. The whole problem starts with infinitude, if the garden (well I am using THE but no one knows for sure if it is THE or A or NAH) was small finite like your home we would know each other and learn other’s way or at least be content with their ways. That’s in a sense a good thing because it let’s everyone assign any meaning to their life so that the suffering or time they spend in garden can be in any way they like or believe, some people come for a walk, some for jog, some to meet, some to play, some to just sit, some to fight, some to enjoy, some to suffer, some to wander around, some are ignorant, most can’t read most signs, some can but they do not because they are busy doing other things etc., etc. .We are not aware of any other garden for now so we should make most of our time in this garden, we should love every moment of it. We should not worry what others are doing and judge them without the full knowledge of why are they doing what they are doing, and if you think this is how it is, this is the best way to spend your time, let’s think again. You can learn, think and do, in any order given you make a better life out of it.

Thanks for your time.