Essentially, everything about our life, and the progression of mankind, is related to achieving happiness and satisfaction. The only reason we are still moving forward, advancing technology, improving living conditions, ending poverty, achieving world peace, is to satisfy that chemical reaction that leads to what we call happiness and satisfaction. The universe, our big questions on the meaning of life, existence....before we can answer these big philosophical questions, before we can understand the universe we live in, we must understand the mechanisms by which we percieve this universe. we are organisms with a brain that makes us feel emotions. We are living on a floating rock in space. We are the quarks and the atoms of the universe. Not everyone is capable of thinking in the big picture anymore. We pigeonhole our life into small frames, focusing only on small aspects of our daily lives, forgetting what they really mean in the long run and in the big scheme of things. A leader may bring a country into a golden age, but overall are they any happier than before? We adapt to things, we cannot experience the sweet without the bitter, are we happier now than we were in the middle ages? Have we truly progressed? Maybe, all this time, mankind has been moving in the wrong direction, because mankind hasn't understood what it is exactly that it is doing, and has only followed instinct?
How small is the smallest particle? If things can become infinitly small, that says the universe is indeed infinite right there, but that can't make sense, than the universe would be on the tip of your finger, in the space between a crack in the wall. Is the universe a fractal? Will we find the same patterns repeated over and over as we explore smaller and smaller atomic worlds?
Language, what I'm using to convey these thoughts right now. Simply symbols. How can things as immense as "everything" and "nothing" be understood through a set of symbols that human beings created.
Right now, these questions don't matter, because right now, I just want to experience happiness, and satisfaction, and by writing this, I have reached that state of mind. After I sleep and awake the next day, I will repeat this proccess, searching for new sources of happiness and satisfaction.
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