Thursday, April 17, 2008

Certainly Uncertain

Think about it. Most people try to come up with theories that mean to help us, but they just confuse us a bit more, they do. Laws, I really don’t get them. Hell, I wish someone would invent a law or something that would explain the difference between ‘law’ and ‘theory’. But, if I’m looking for something not-confusing, then I’m definitely going the wrong way.

Think about it.
It’s raining outside, and you have nothing to do but think. And there are cars passing by, and you see the raindrops splashing, and there’s lampposts, some that flicker, and your neighbour is watching T.V. like he usually does. It’s the world out there. The society we’ve created. Made up of different theories and laws. Things that were meant to be. And you can’t help but wonder, throughout boring times in your life, how a television works, and electricity too. Bossy scientists get all mad at you, and they explain the whole thing. But you just wonder, why? Why is it that colour? Why not green? Why not round?

Because things are just this way, some might answer. But it’s not enough. Laws are made to explain something logical, or something that can be explained. It’d be good to know, to be explained, about illogical things. Or things that are too cool for us, the humans. Traveling through time. What is time? Seconds, minutes and hours. How was it created?...I really don’t know.

There is this law, a small law that is somehow shy and can’t come out to make itself clear. It is living all among us. This law, so different, tries to explain the illogical. We love this law, though we don’t know about it. Sometimes, it avoids head aches and allows us to think a bit less, and leave everything as it is.

It’s Uncertainty. We are goddamn full of it. How many times have we said, I don’t know? Because we are too lazy to browse Google.com and try to find an article explaining the Quantum Theory, or something. This Law had to be heard.

Who are you to be certain? You say there’s things you don’t know, but what do you know about you? You might as well be living two thousand lives at the same time, and therefore allowing your different ‘selves’ to be in different worlds and times. We thought time was certain, but it really isn’t. We can’t know if there are different ways in which to experience time. We can’t know if time is repetitive, or dangerous.

The Law of Uncertainty. We live within it. Because we never know what will happen, for certain. We really don’t know what or who we are, and what we will do. We don’t know if God exists, if there is Karma, and Destiny, we don’t know for certain. Why are apples red? Uncertainty. You see, apples are not only red, but green and yellow too.

Obviously, sometime you’ll get stressed for being so ignorant, and leaving everything without a proper explanation, but I don’t want you to die of stress. So, here’s some optimistic views about something we most fear: death. You should actually look forward to it. Because when you’re dead, when you’re in that other life that people talk about, then you’ll know everything, for certain. Too bad we don’t want to die. Why? It’s uncertain.

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