Control is just a manipulation of knowledge. The better you understand something, the better you can use it to work for you. Look at electricity, it has always existed. It literally runs through our bodies. But it took people like Faraday and Maxwell to begin to truly understand it. Even when they began to understand it, others’ understanding of it was so limited that they thought it was useless research that we would never be able to apply it to everyday life. Now the world we live in couldn’t exist without it.
People like being in control, which is fine. However, I’ve realized that in accepting I don’t have much control, I have learned to love the chaos that is life.
When we accept that we cannot control much, we can learn and focus on what we actually can. Just because life is chaotic, it doesn’t mean we can’t direct that chaos. It’s like a raging river: no matter what we do, that water will continue to flow; we cannot control the water, but the direction in which it flows. Another example can be how we look at energy. Energy continually works to get to its lowest energy state, but just because we know it’ll end up in the lowest state doesn’t mean we can’t alter the path in between the beginning and the end.
A major mistake people make is thinking they have control of what happens after death. In doing this, they tend to devalue their lives: if you believe in an eternal afterlife, you begin to think that your time on earth is insignificant and should be used to prepare for it; if you believe nothing happens after you die, you begin to think life is pointless since it will all amount to nothing in the end.
Now I’m not saying thinking about what happens after death and forming theories is dumb. I have formed my own beliefs as to what will happen when I die. However, I realize there isn’t a way for me to prove it in life, so I don’t worry about whether I’m right or not. If I’m right, that’s awesome. If I’m wrong, there are 2 possibilities I can think of: either i die and nothing happens or i die and realize that there is an afterlife, just not the one i expect.
Both of these options are fine to me. If nothing happens, then I won’t know and won’t have to worry about it. If something unexpected happens, that just means I get to explore a new experience that hadn’t ever crossed my mind while alive. On a side note: Though I don’t necessarily believe in heaven/hell in the classic sense, I realize that it is a possibility.
However, I can’t comprehend a God that would punish me for being curious about different possibilities and forming theories based off my own experiences. Though, if the fundamentalistic understanding of God/heaven/hell where you can only be rewarded by believing purely in unprovable faith is true, then I refuse to accept the notion that this version of God’s love is infinite, so I wouldn’t want to serve such an unreasonable god. If I’m punished for my curiosity, I’ll gladly accept that punishment.
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