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- There are only so many things to be envious about. Countable. The existence for one is a malady when the
- perception is defected. It’s so…
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- <h3 name="0862" id="0862" class="graf graf--h3 graf--leading graf--title">Existential being</h3>
- <p name="ecb4" id="ecb4" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3">There are only so many things to be envious
- about. Countable. The existence for one is a malady when the perception is defected. It’s so hard to cope
- with rejection isn’t it? As if the entirety of life depended on it. Aloneness, is so dreaded that even the
- spell checker is underlining it in red!</p>
- <p name="ae22" id="ae22" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">We are constantly overwhelmed by our
- surroundings with beings. Happiness is overrated. So is optimism. We’re continuously being conditioned.
- Conditioning with idealistic propaganda and narcissism. The imagery of our being is so profound that
- subtleties of reality are often overshadowed. The human perception is often hazy. The eagerness to discern
- and categorize thoughts and experiences is habitual exercise of the mind. A constant repetitive phenomenon
- with no scope for newness.</p>
- <p name="f6a5" id="f6a5" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">It’s true that we are living in the past. Our
- memories are deeply rooted and are the reasons for determining the present action. Evolutionary memory
- takes care of the survival. Every human cell is memory in its own way. Replication and cessation are
- innate in them. It takes effort to allow the memory to be ignored. Ignoring memory allows for the
- possibility to see the new. If the memory fails in classifying it, then it is a new occurrence. Every
- little change is a new occurrence. The leaves on the branch of a tree that was there a day ago may not be,
- an unseen bird starts cooing, which wasn’t there before. These are barely noticed and perhaps never seen
- as a change or a new occurrence in existence. We are confined by our limitations of sensory perception. We
- can’t feel the change that the planet we live on completed a rotation about its axis in a day or the cells
- in our body have died and replicated in the past hour. Every moment is new and it’s slightly different
- from the previous. Therefore, change happens.</p>
- <p name="0d2a" id="0d2a" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Our mind is something that differentiates us
- from other organisms on this planet. Consciousness is considered as a product of mind. What makes us
- conscious is our ability to think. Thoughts which carry memory of the past and imagery of future
- expectations. One lives in a world of thoughts. Does thought have a physical existence? as it does shape
- the way we act. It flows just like a stream of water. Although, we can’t touch it, we still can experience
- it. Memory would be like a sea formed with these streams of thoughts.</p>
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- <p name="45c6" id="45c6" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure graf--trailing">Sometimes, thought and
- emotion dictates the way we are. It may be more than just ‘sometimes’. Our way of sensing the environment,
- beings and events has been a function of its pleasantness. As we continue to drag ourselves through this
- endless saga of succumbing to fantasies (a product of thought and memory) and the lust of senses, we find
- hopelessness, desperation and misery. Our aim would have been to seek maximum pleasure out of life and
- satiate our every materialistic craving but there were very few occasions when we have truly risen above
- all these, immaculately. Certain things may be guaranteed, no matter what, as they are existential and
- real. Inaction has no impact on them. The craving of human is certainly an instrument of bondage and
- appeasement. Never a penchant for freedom. Isn’t it strange that we all carry these feelings, emotions,
- desires and deep rooted notions all along and even let them perpetuate endlessly. The fact that we may
- remain unfulfilled happens to be a certain outcome with an outrageously high probability. Thus, only the
- truth can set us free.</p>
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