Yes i have no real title! and while i know what i want to write about, im currently fighting back the worst case of inertia ever (i'm sure this will pop up at various stages of this post)! as a result i may go off on an entirely different tangent for no apparent reason (though im sure after i read it i'll get back on track) .. um...how do they get those ships into those tiny glass bottles??
so anyways, i had this thought (yes singular) a while back and i sort of scribbled it down for later (cos apparently i dont have too many thoughts so i should remember the ones i do - inane as they are) and came across it today - Would we take the actions / the decisions that we do if we truly understood the consequences? And i dont just mean the short term immediate results but the actual eventual outcomes?
I guess this has a lot to do with knowing your future or looking back on things youve done and wonder just why you did them.
We've all been to palmists / tarot readers /numerologists / tantrics / gypsies / or the funny lady who lives under a tree or know people who've gone to them. Some people get a sense of stability and security in knowing what (possibly) lies ahead. Some do it when things arent working out and you want to try to get some explanation for it. And then there are the lot who are curious enough to go to them, but aren't serious at all and usually just find it amusing .... but whatever be the reason, the remotest possibility of knowing ones future makes the person take whatever step available, and thats because the prize is too great. But then that too makes me think - Does knowing your future make it happen? i mean, for example, if one knows that they're gonna be getting a divorce 10 years down the line because the wife slept with your best friend (yes i realize that the tantrics are usually not that specific) would you stop talking to your best friend right now? or to approach it from the right side up - if i know that i'm going to commit a crime 10 years form now, an i avoid doing it by changing my steps? how will i know what steps lead to committing the crime anyways? hmmm now that time's come up, the whole theory of relativity is just too complex to take in. The thought that there is no present, future or past and that we and everything around us is existing at the same time is just mind boggling. And while i wont pretend to understand the theory itself (im pretty sure even my basic understanding of it is askewed) i refuse to believe that im being born, graduating from school, getting married, having kids, grandkids and dieing right now! ok so i went off on that for a bit!
This whole thought vs. action thing came about as i thought about the honey bee. What is their deal anyways? and what does nature try to tell us with them? Is nature saying that you should die to protect your home? Or are we to understand that the honey bee is just one strange suicidal creature with a bad anger management problem!!? The way i see it, i just think noone has explained the whole process to them yet, and while they must see it happen infront of them (with their billions of fallen comrades) they must be thinking that the enemy did that - those bastards!! why they were not told about the whole dieing bit i wont get into (though its quite obvious - i mean if i was a general sending troops into battle, i wouldnt wanna highlight the fact that the only weapon my soldier had would kill them for sure..it may be a slight mood killer!) but i do believe that the honey bee's approach would be a lot different had they known what would happen if they stung someone! im sure theyd be more than willing to sit down and figure out some sort of negotiation (though it would be quite a chore trying to talk in beenese! and i wouldnt know the first place to look for a mediator who practises bee laws and negotiations! and how much honey would i be willing to settle for? hmmmm i like honey!!)
I guess what im trying to say is that if you really think about it, you may come to realise that telling someone off or eating that extra piece of cake or taking that hectic job may not be that important down the line. After all, who knows what chain of events will cause the eventual outcome.
I realise that ofcourse the eventual outcome for everything is zero so knowing that you could either do nothing at all (since it wont matter anyways) or do everything because in that respect, short term seems to rock!
And i suppose then, that the best that we can really do, is do the best with what time we have here...and whatever we try to forecast and plan our decision by is really the closest thing we have to a good idea. and beyond that its impossible to see.I guess for me, ill think about the problem for a looong time, and then pretty much do whatever feels right at the time (and whatever my buddy King Fish Er tells me to do - he's kinda wise and all knowing :))
