Thoughts.
“Nobody, no matter how long his life is extended, we will not get to live another life than the one he has been given.”
I actually don't remember how exactly the poem went. I have read it a while back in my morning dose of poetry in the book Marcus Aurelius, written between 161 to 180 AD.
It gets me thinking every single time. When I wake up and when I go to sleep. Sometimes I wonder how he came up with all of his thoughts about life and the world. Was he the person I think he is by only reading his translated poems? Life has been hard when the Roman Empire was ruling over 3/4 of Europe. It makes me wonder if he was as wise as I imagined him to be. Guess we never know.
Every single life of ours will come to an end, eventually. And it really doesn't matter who we are or how hard we have worked for our legacy. We will all be eventually forgotten. Even people like Aurelius, Mandela, Luther King, Gandhi, or even Hitler will be forgotten and history might repeat. It all comes around, back in a cycle. The same act just with different actors. Even in our lifetime we often end up going in circles. If it is with romantic partners, friends, work, etc. Similar actions only with different actors.
I often ask myself how could I make the most out of the never-ending circles of life? I mostly end up with the word learning.
How funny is it that we humans are born and need to learn everything from scratch? We can be shaped into everything we want to or our parents want us to. We will only know what others want us to know. Not more or less.
So what is important to know? And what is not?
More importantly who decides that and how is it decided?
Is there a human code?
A code every human should read before his 18th birthday?
We have the code we teach children in school. A plan with everything a child needs to learn in a particular order so it will understand life. (I don’t necessarily think that we are doing a great job.)
Why's our code then so complicated in comparison to the one of an animal? How did we end up like this? And where will we go as a human species? So far away from nature. So far away from ‘normal’. What is normal anyway?😊 I guess it is okay not to know. All we can do is balance and re-balance what is right in front of us and learn from what just happened. Because eventually, we will come to another end of the circle. Even reading this blog post comes to an end and you may repeat the same action slightly differently in a similar setting.
Insprations:
Book —> “Meditation” by Marcus Aurelius