Questioning your existence: a philosophical enquiry | Part 1
What’s the mere point of existing when the status quo is always so flipped?
The world seems to be coming to an end, everyday we are consistently looking at a ‘prediction graph’ to quest our need for certainty — of when our lives can begin again. We are inflicting tremendous amounts of pain to each other by pushing our anxieties onto the other, but not communicating what our thoughts are making us feel. As humanity sees this crisis we need to rise in our quotient of being able to clearly express our thoughts, emotions, fears, feelings and our anxieties to another in a processed manner. We need to understand and create spaces where we can be vulnerable, emotionally safe, not feel threatened, controlled, ridiculed for feeling what we’re feeling and thinking what we’re thinking.
Our voices shouldn’t have to be demeaned and dismissed when they’re coming from a place of vulnerability, and helplessness — they need to rest in a space. A space that hopefully we can individually create for ourselves, or have one in our lives that we can contain it in. These thoughts, worries, anxieties when poured on to the ones we’re anxious about suffocates them, it triggers them to get anxious about your anxieties, instead of being able to feel what you’re feeling with compassion and help you reach a place of empowerment. We need to identify our emotions behind our thoughts, fears, and worries, and internally enquire why these emotions exist — what’s the need that’s been left unheard?
Apart from the uncertainty of the coronavirus, there’s so much happening in the world. There are political polarizations happening around the globe, there is rising inequality, and dissent is crippling. In the Indian context, we’re looking at another of India’s daughters being dismissed for her agency on her body. Dismissiveness will create more barriers, bring us more apart than we’ve already come.
Change is far, people are conveniently staying in denial of what is evident. In this entire dialogue, people convince themselves of a narrative that suits them and their emotional needs from a larger system instead of hearing intently, open-mindedly, and compassionately from the other side, and that creates triggers, a sense of unfairness and loss of agency for the ‘other’.
I so ask, what is the point of existing when everything feels like it is pitied against you?
(End of part 1)
// Stay tuned for part — 2 of the enquiry
