"I never tire of saying that the only really transitory aspects of life are the potentialities; but as soon as they are actualized, they are rendered realities at that very moment; they are saved and delivered safely into the past, wherein they are rescued and preserved from transitoriness. For, in the past, nothing is irretrievably lost but everything is irrevocably stored"- Viktor Frankl
I love this quote, Just the idea that life if the process of building itself. Each of us as individuals is given one task, to build a story, and so at each moment we collapse from all of the possibilities a single choice that we put into our own personal bucket, and at the end of life that bucket is us. All of the moments we chose make up our story.
I sometimes feel like I can't unlock myself. That there is something inside of me that needs to be realized and I can't realize it. It's an interesting feeling, I usually describe it as "yearning" or "quiet desperation" but at the end of the day it is ultimately this feeling that keeps me going. It fuels my desire to see whats at the end of existence.
I love this quote, Just the idea that life if the process of building itself. Each of us as individuals is given one task, to build a story, and so at each moment we collapse from all of the possibilities a single choice that we put into our own personal bucket, and at the end of life that bucket is us. All of the moments we chose make up our story.
I sometimes feel like I can't unlock myself. That there is something inside of me that needs to be realized and I can't realize it. It's an interesting feeling, I usually describe it as "yearning" or "quiet desperation" but at the end of the day it is ultimately this feeling that keeps me going. It fuels my desire to see whats at the end of existence.
In 1977, Illya Prigogine won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the theory of Dissapative structures. A dissapative system is any system that is operating outside of thermodynamic equilibrium, It is a system that creates order out of entropy. Every physical and chemical reaction in the universe is acting towards more and more entropy. "For dissipative systems to sustain their growth, they must not only increase their negentropic potential, but they must also eliminate the positive entropy that naturally accumulates over time as systems are trying to sustain themselves. The build up of the system’s internal complexity as it grows is always accompanied by the production of positive entropy (diS > 0), which must be dissipated out of the system as waste or low-grade energy. Otherwise, the accumulation of positive entropy in the system will eventually bring it to thermodynamic equilibrium, a state in which the system cannot maintain its order and organisation"
This is a long analogy I know, but bear with me :). That quiet desperation or yearning that I feel, IS the fact that I am operating outside of equilibrium. The human being is sort of a system that is designed to turn stress into something more. Creating triumph out of tribulation. Creating order out of chaos. That is what I think, at least. There is always the choice, to stagnate, to stop moving, to give up or to let go and grow more complex.. When the stress ( positive entropy) is too much, it makes sense that we want to stagnate, and that we go crazy. It's hard to maintain an organized mind when trying to hold onto everything.
This is a long analogy I know, but bear with me :). That quiet desperation or yearning that I feel, IS the fact that I am operating outside of equilibrium. The human being is sort of a system that is designed to turn stress into something more. Creating triumph out of tribulation. Creating order out of chaos. That is what I think, at least. There is always the choice, to stagnate, to stop moving, to give up or to let go and grow more complex.. When the stress ( positive entropy) is too much, it makes sense that we want to stagnate, and that we go crazy. It's hard to maintain an organized mind when trying to hold onto everything.
We all have events that cause an undue amount of stress on us, whether it's a break up or the loss of a limb, but its how we use that chaos to create order and to actualize our human potential that we create meaning. It's in those moments of the greatest stress that we are lucky enough to choose which potential meaning we want to rescue into our past.
At then end of your life, what will be in your bucket?
At then end of your life, what will be in your bucket?
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