Life Is Neither a Punishment nor a Blessing

As much as we would like it to be, the phenomenon of life has no labels — it is simply a phenomenon

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Think about what happened this morning when you woke up in your bed. Did you ask for it, or did you just wake up? And then, did you initiate any special procedure to start breathing, heart beating, blood pumping, or seeing, hearing, feeling, and all the mental wobble? Did the sun need your permission to shine in the morning? In other words, is this all planned, under your control, or does it just happen spontaneously?

See, we fantasize about control because, in reality, there is no control. There is no need for control because this thing we call life is perfectly self-regulating. Control and the obsession with measuring everything is our play or little games within the play. In a way, we’re indeed creative beings but also detached from reality, confusing the abstractions of reality we have created with reality.

For example, some, or rather most people, consider social life, that is, whatever humans do, from fundamental interactions to all the complications of banking, transportation, or politics, as the center of life. And since the most basic social institution is our ego, followed by our role in society and other nonsense about identity and stories, we…