If you’ve spent decades trying to understand what in the world you believe, and still can’t quite pin it down, you’re in luck. The world’s institutions are crumbling, one after the other. For over 15000 years, the Church gave people a set of beliefs, requirements, and rules to build their life around. One’s heroic odyssey was part of the whole. Before that, the Romans, and before that the Greeks, and before that the Assyrians, and before that, who knows? Each society had it’s own set of rules. You did not need to strive very much beyond what your station in life as. We now spin, endlessly spin, searching for some capital T truth to tell us, in plain terms, on our timeline, what we should be doing with our lives. What level of morality we should accept as satisfactory. We are undeniably obsessed-I am undeniably obsessed-with what it means to be a good person, and how to hit that level in the game. The Tao tells us to allow; that if we strive we are ruining the whole thing. Our culture says we must strive. What would our ancestors think of us? Can our ancestors think of us? Does time move in a linear fashion? If the Theory of Relativity is correct, it does not. Time always is and always will be. We’re essentially playing out our parts. But, if that’s so, why would I chose a crappy place to eat lunch? Surely that wasn’t somehow predestined in the universe. If you often feel as if you’re plunging down a river, trying your best to hold on to any piece of detritus you can find, just so you have a decent grasp on something solid, welcome to the club.
The problem-the rather big problem- is the more we find ourselves in this state, the less we take action on the things in the world that call to us. We must wake up in our own, unsatisfactory way, and simply do the work, and allow the theoretical to live where it always has and it always will. That is the only certainty there is.
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