It's Not That Bad - Part 1

It's not that bad. We are not victims. 'Victim' would imply that we have been wronged and presuppose a self-awareness sufficient for us to be aware that we have been wronged. We have not been wronged. And most of us are self-centered, but not self-aware.

It comes mostly from our state of being, from the illusions that form the fundamentals of the complex systems we utilize to feed ourselves, to quantify our relationships to the people and things around us, to fall ill, to heal, to age, to breed, to navigate, to reproduce, to ascribe meaning, to fabricate value, and to die.

We use use the systemic momentum to propel us in trajectories of our choosing, and therein lies the root of the illusion of freewill. But we cannot extract ourselves any more than a virus can stop from killing its host. In that respect alea iacta est.

It is neither good nor bad, unsettling nor comforting, restraining nor liberating. It simply is. And like the plastic spoon, it is inevitable and beyond our control.

Diligently remind yourself to forget. Regulate emotion. Finish reinventing your past. Fight the good fight. Never give up the ship. Ignore the psychic noise. Be faithful evermore. It's not that bad.