i was reading this book today that i found quite intriguing. We usually think in terms of absolutes, in the birth and death of a person. You are born on the day you leave your mother's womb, you die on the day you breathe your last.
But the author felt otherwise. After all, dont the Chinese consider one to be a year old on the day you enter this world? They consider the 9 months spent inside your mother as part of your life. So if you take it one step further, you could say that you are born on the day you as an embryo is formed. That would then mean you that you are not actually you, but rather half of part of your mom, and half of part of your dad.
Taking it back even further, you would not be part of your parents, but rather parts of your grandparents. But that wouldnt be accurate, you would actually be part of the first humans, or whatever creatures that came before that, or even before there was life, part of a rock or the a tree or a sky. There would be no birth, no death, no creation, no destruction. (Of course, in science, we already learnt that energy cannot be created or destroyed)
Then it means you are not absolutely you, but rather you are, or have been every part of the world, and every part of the world, you.
Doesnt that make you feel so much closer to the world now?
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when i was younger, i used to imagine, what if we're all interconnected, like cells of a gigantic giant? Just like the cells in our body, we as humans interact with one another.
Who control our cells? What determines the life and death of our cells? How about us humans? Who determines our life and death?
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