“This life is both beautiful and tragic.” - Janna
It IS. And somehow, in some way, I believe we chose this experience, knowing ultimately that we would experience the highs and lows– the joys and tears, and in one path or another, and we decided we would do this… for the experience.
I don’t know that we were ever angels sitting up somewhere in heaven, picking the exact life we would have… but I do think we collectively knew that it would be like this, at least in the sense of recognizing our emotional ties to the things that pull on them.
There is so much to experience. The beauty of life, the tragedy of death… the coming to terms of the necessity of both… the balance that is pertinent for generations to continue having the opportunity to experience these things.
As a collective whole, humanity has come to a turning point… to an unrecognizable fork in the road where we can no longer continue on the beaten path as we always have. We are waking up and realizing that we have ethical obligations– responsibilities to ourselves and our experience and to our future generations who may also want to experience this. We are learning from our mistakes and our past lifetimes– we are recognizing our life lessons and coming to terms with our mortality. We are realizing that this lifetime isn’t always so much about US and our short lifespan here (each time) and more about the WHOLE collaborative experience that all spirits may potentially embrace.
And what if there ARE no potential spirits? What if this all is a fluke? An accident of nature, and after this there is nothing?
It doesn’t matter.
We are facing major ethical dilemmas as we continue to evolve. We become more scientifically advanced and have begun breaking the natural chain of events that life on earth for eternity has needed in order to perpetuate. In understanding the physical properties of nature, our sciences have prevented death and simultaneously cause death. Death, the omnipotent, inescapable, undeniable god whom we all fear and likely respect.
Is it all hopeless? Is it a lost cause, a pariayan ideal that our humanity was supposed to last forever?
I don’t think so. We have to make the best of what we’ve got. We’ve got to take the hand we’ve been dealt and play it, even if we feel like there are no other options than to fold.
This life is both beautiful and tragic. And somehow, we’ve chosen to experience the heights of beauty knowing full well that the depths of tragedy are not negotiable.
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