Thought Diary - Upside Down Snow Globe

Purpose is a buzzword. Even Zuckerberg delivered a speech about inspiring a "sense of purpose" in all people. I explored many variations of purpose in my blog posts: hope is immortal, uncertainty is powerful, life is beautiful...  Art of Nier: Automata from caveman. They all paint the same picture.  A picture of not giving up. A picture of going against all odds. A picture of trying really hard. A picture of lots of emotions. A picture of a future that we want to live.  In the end, it comes down to effort. It comes down to a measurement of sacrifice. How much are we willing to sacrifice to achieve something we want? Our free time? Our bedtime? Other commitments?  I have also talked about relativity countless times on my blog. Without sadness, there will be no happiness. Otherwise, how can we differentiate between the two emotions? Without sacrifice, there is no effort.  Otherwise, how can we distinguish effort?  We have limited ...

Have you ever felt a sudden, unexpected sense of familiarity? A view that you can swear you've seen before, but can't figure out when. A sudden rapport towards a place or a person that brings back nostalgic memories that you can't quite remember.  Picture by me from Pixel 2 XL. There is this theory that there are many world lines, and our world is just one of them. In nearby world lines, we have nearly identical lives, but with a few distinct differences. In faraway world lines, we are living completely different lives. Many like to entertain this theory because it gives them hope, hopes that life will not be limited by present problems and hope that life can be changed for the better.  Some dismiss deja vu as simply memory failure. Others take deja vu as evidence for the multi-world line theory. They say deja vu comprises of fragments of your memory from nearby world lines. I take it as a fanciful perspective.  Life feels like a grind sometimes, and i...

Falcon heavy.  When we think about space, we seem to be enchanted by its expanse. It is something big beyond imagination and filled with mysterious that we can not begin to unravel.  How did the universe being?  What is at the edge of the universe? Can we travel to another galaxy?  Falcon Heavy is a mere rocket. It is a big rocket, but it is trivial compared to the size of our universe.  Picture by me from Pixel 2 XL. Insatiable.  It is pretty clear that human desire is insatiable. The best examples are ourselves. We wish for goals, we give up on them, we reach them, and we set other goals. Last week, I talked about the unreacheable state of complete satisfaction. Insatiable desire is merely another way of saying it.  Falcon Heavy's launch brought me back to this topic. Elon Musk said something along the lines of wanting to make humans an interplanetary species. Everyone can share the primal human awe and desire to explore ...

Relativity is awesome but also cruel. Like how a magnet always has two poles. Even if you cut it in half, the magnet will still have two poles. A single pole magnet does not exist. Everything in life has two extremes.  Happiness cannot exist without sadness. Good feelings cannot exist without bad feelings. Life is built on top of relativity. The classic example that money cannot buy happiness shows that once we achieve a previous goal, we set our sights higher at a better goal.  Art from Children Who Chase Lost Voices. Does this limit us? Is life just a joke for us to approach an asymptote? If life is built on top of relativity, then it is impossible to achieve a state of complete satisfaction. This also justifies religions that focus on clearing the mind and reaching a nirvana like state. People try to overcome the limitations of relativity by clearing themselves of desires. Relativity seems limiting, because no matter how far we go, we will always automa...