Quite deceptive aren’t they?

Can y’all also tell some interesting people to follow on primal though?

Casually collected Life lessons - Part 1 I’ve been meaning to write something from a long time. Life has been dramatic and I haven’t shared much with people, for I believe, growth happens in the silence. The silent pains at first hurt a lot but eventually push you to a threshold where you can no longer be passive, but are pushed to a level of dynamism. The growth occurs but, naturally. This is what occurred with me. I had to put things(and people) aside, those especially which didn’t serve me well on the journey ahead. On my way, I collected many lessons though, through texts, scriptures and tweets. It’s surprising to me, how once I used to be a visual learner but words appeal much to me now, especially while I’m learning. And with this blog or article or piece of text I intend to present all of you with some beautiful things I’ve read and interpreted with my life’s context. Though as I go ahead, I’ll try and put my perspective in impersonal sense, as in, I wouldn’t put in any personal anecdotes or stories (as the word impersonal would infer), but something all of us maybe feeling at large scale. So to start things, I’ve went back to one of the oldest religions, Judaism. The Jewish people have had long history of suffering and displacement from their native geographical territories. Though, this allows them to provide themselves and rest of the world with wisdom which can aid us in times of mundane existence as well turmoil or rapid progress. As we go through life, many of us go through cycles where we want to help improve the world and then we get, what we call in modern terms, blackpilled, meaning pessimistic about the world at large. This forces us to shrink our worlds to mere ourselves or at maximum, our families. Especially in a war torn world it seems people shrink rapidly to a very inflated yet personal ego, much kafkaesque. And this is what is happening in the world right now. To help us with this, there’s a Hebrew saying which i came across, which could help us to stick to the grandiose dream of improving the world yet not get, well, blackpilled! It goes something like: Lo alecha ha’melacha ligmor, ve’lo atah ben chorin le’hibatel mimena Meaning: It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world, but you are not free to desist from it either. This seems like a very ideal or religious saying, for it may be for an inflated yet personal ego. It’s natural for we are animals, thinking first and foremost of ourselves in times of turmoil. Which again makes its obvious for us to not indulge ourselves in what’s largely called ideal. Like the ideal love, and how people hide behind structured relationships as long as they can avoid ego shattering love, for they’ve seen so in movies but not in real life. Real *mundane* life presents them with challenges and they’ve no way out but to hide behind veils of practicality, which provide them with comfort and support. This brings us back to the lesson, how it teaches us that each individual has to work towards improving the world. Though rationally, we can expect to perfect it, and despite that without being disappointed we should not run away from the responsibility. This somehow resonates with what I understand to be the central idea around karma yoga in the Bhagavad Gita. Krishna tells Arjuna to emphasise on his actions giving up fruits, which implies to me is what the Hebrew wisdom tries to explain us. In a world so fragile, so volatile, it’s easy that we become greedy for its natural so. The gene is selfish, as the Dawkins’ book suggest. What the gene and eventually an unaware organism would want is to save itself at any cost. This is where the human wisdom interferes, allows us to break the autopilot mode of selfishness and move towards selflessness, in the sense that we work towards improvement of the world without any expectations of its perfection. For such wish is not only idiotic but also rationally impossible. This is one of the lessons that I’ve come across and is something we could use in times that we live in. With AI taking the centre stage and wars becoming a daily occurrence, an ideology like above, the mindset of active engagement is what allows us to keeps our spirits up. There is more which I intend to share, but a Hebrew wisdom is a good start. I hope I was able to convey the lesson as I’ve authentically interpreted and that it helps you, even if, little. Love Pratyaksh

we all are living this beautiful sequence called life for status games of money, fame , perfect family and perfect legacy but when the game closes, the only metric that matters is how fully you met reality, breath by breath. -anonymous

Amazingly written.

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