Ideas have ruled the Earth ever since language was created to communicate with each other. When we act with alacrity and have a logical extension, it is inherently inferred and deduced that even language was also an idea to some XYZ person in the long distant past for it to have been manifested either as an art, sound or symbol.
For instance, the English alphabets "a to z" could have been in different order or 'a' could have been spelled or written differently or occupied the 26th position. If this had been the case when the alphabets were arranged in a sequence, all of us would have unanimously said that 'a' is the last letter of the alphabet now or 'a' may have been symbolically and vocally represented as totally something else or both.
It is applicable to each and every letter of not only English language but also to other languages as well. Our penchant for finding meaning towards everything around us - including the vast space and deep oceans - has resulted in an utter distortion of the sense of reality that it's not okay to be meaningless when the actual reality whispers and tells us point-blank and right in the face that it's okay to be meaningless. Just enough.
Now, "Just enough" is a very tricky proposition as mandated by Nature as we must know and understand the completely delicate and subtle balance between when/where/why to be meaningful and meaningless. It's like our Earth itself.
Had our planet been +/- some kilometers from where we are actually orbiting the sun, life wouldn't have existed in our world and you wouldn't have been able to read this blog or the sentence. Scientists' call our habitable state of affairs as "The Goldilocks Zone" and they are on the quest on finding other Exo-planets which is in a similar region to us but elsewhere in the Universe.
It goes without saying that I wouldn't have been able to piece together the isolated and separated parts into an integrated whole and write this up either.
Every day-to-day object that we see and come in contact with our senses was an idea - Money, Status, Prestige, Power, Governments, Economies, Brands etc etc. - in their simplest, unsophisticated, incomplete and undeveloped form that was later curated and systematized over time by giving a proper shape and framework through deliberations, contemplations, curiosities, observations, trials & errors and elaborate discussions.
Why should it matter to each and every one of us to retrace the steps of the pages of history and move forward?
It will exactly let us know how much we know what we know and what else is/are unknown that spawns the areas of improvements in the known sectors without foregoing on exploring the missing components of the big picture. At the end of the day, it is essentially linked to our survival and offsprings no matter whether you want to stand upside down like a bat or stand on one leg like a meditating yogi.
Once again, when we speak of "survival", there is right survival and wrong survival.
To clarifying and simplifying it further, if you kill a person or steal/ rob someone to live your life, that's wrong survival. Even if you had the wherewithals to escape from the clutches of the law, Karma unequivocally ensures that it is a bitch to bite you back at the unexpected time. At a metaphysical, spiritual and quantum level, punishments and grievances are destined to happen at a later point in time even if you don't want to believe in 'Karma'.
Whether you want short-term gain & long-term pain or short-term pain & long-term gain is a matter of choice though IMHO, I prefer the latter as everyone is confined within the realms of practical limitations and bounded rationalities. But, ideally speaking, short-term gain and long-term gain is the wisest choice to pick when you cover all your bases though it's a herculean task that requires truckloads of time and effort.
As the greatest general Sun Tzu propounded "The battle is won before it is fought".
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