Relativity - Are We Limited?

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 automatically adjust our perspective and set new standards for happiness and enjoyment. It makes the whole pursuit of goals seemingly pointless. But I argue that the journey is not pointless. 

Desires. 

It is not a revelation that we are motivated by desires. We want to become better. We want to do this. We want to do that. Even good wishes are desires. We want to help people. We want to love our families more. They are all desires. There is nothing wrong with chasing desires, because, after all, desires are scripted in our DNA.

It is crazy how we often dismiss desire as negative and fail to see that desire is life. We should learn to understand our desires.

Desire is a compass. 

It points us in a direction to walk. Our destination is the true magnetic pole, but since we live on a circular object, we keep walking past the true pole away from complete satisfaction. After a while, we notice our wrong direction and we turn back and walk once again, ceaselessly. It is silly to picture ourselves walking around. But there is an important distinction. From the outside, it may seem that we are walking around aimlessly, but we are not. We are walking with a purpose. 

Doubt ourselves and lose our way, but never stop walking. - Gin

So is relativity a limitation? Yes, it limits us from complete satisfaction, but we have desires to guide us. They can't guide us to the true pole, because the pole is not on our plane of existence, but they keep us walking, seeing new things, and maybe changing our world.