A World In Motion...

We have so much to learn about our world. I have so much to learn about our world. I had some insight into my own little world today.

We live in a world that is in constant motion. Constant flux. Everything is changing in one way or another. Nothing is staying still for very long, if you look at it on the right timescale. And yet as human beings we spend so much time trying to nail things down.

The world was never meant to be nailed down. It was never meant to be 'saved' or 'perfect' or anything else we can imagine with our horribly misinformed 'snapshot' model of the world. If you change something here, something else will be altered. One of the most fundamental principles of quantum mechanics is that you can't know both the speed and location of a particle at one moment. For the second you measure one of these things, you've changed the other by simply interacting with it.

You were never meant to know what it looks like in your fridge when the light goes off.

Now physics still shows us a world full of patterns, which happen time and time again. Society operates in similar ways.

But you cannot freeze it. You cannot stop it from evolving, changing, rearranging. You can only embrace it where it is, and nudge it a bit this way or that way.

So fight for change. Wrestle with every last ounce of energy, until God himself must cheat to bring you down. Just know when it's all said and done, you cannot fight against the world and win. She is too smart for you. She knows you much better than you know yourself.

The irony is that those who struggle most, whose pain is far greater than many of us will ever know, realized this a long time ago.

Like a poor man's superman we dig our heels into the track to slow a train which cannot be stopped.

Life and death will be exchanged like chips between God and the Devil. There's no telling how much time we'll have on this table.

Don't you see that the point was never to rid ourselves of all the pain? It was simply share it, as we so easily share everything else: our laughter, our pride.

How can we appreciate any of this more than when we come to terms with the truth about how fleeting our moments are?

We spend so much time trying to explain to ourselves why we should help, hold, and love...but the truth is, it's all we know in the end. Sometimes we fool ourselves momentarily, sometimes for years. But we always know the place we feel most comfortable, if only we take a chance to be honest with ourselves.

If only we understood what it was to live life to the fullest, in the company of so many. Sitting beside them in their hardest moments. If only we understood how much comfort there is in letting go of our safety.

In the end we are not alone. We are all together.

In any case, no one is going to be able to convince me otherwise.