humanity

being the best at being a unique being

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All beings are unique.

This gives that a particular being can only be “the best at” being the unique being that this particular being is.

How can you compare yourself to others if everyone are unique? Sure, comparisons can be interesting, for example, they can help you see in which areas  your talents are the strongest, or what is better or not so good for you under given circumstances, but there are no guaranties for that.

To really compare two things to each other fairly to decide who is the best in some aspect, they would be required to be tested under the same circumstances and well, considering the fact that all beings are unique and that we all experience everything in a unique way, according to my opinion, this is as close to impossible as something can get.

A good example is taste in music, which is so obviously unique for every individual. We might consider a piece of music good or bad, but something that I dislike can be a fantastic experience to someone else. There might even be music that most of us consider horrible, lets say an unfinished, falsely played cereal commercial to choose an extreme. Hearing even this tune might for a particular person be an enlightening musical experience, and if it can be that, can it not then, under given circumstance, be the best for someone? In one aspect “the best”?!

What does that say about being “the best”?

Look, if a piece of music wins a competition, it doesn’t necessarily mean that this is the best piece of music in that competition, but more that it was the piece of music that most of the jury liked at that given moment in time. Ok, lets take another example. Lets take a running competition. If a runner wins a race in an arena at a given moment, it shows just that – this runner was fastest at that given moment in time under those circumstances. But does that make this runner the best runner of those who participated in the race? No, it doesn’t, because the runners are all unique; someone of them might have had a bad day another might be insecure, yet another might be really fast but haven’t developed their technique yet…

I think that one could reason like this around any competition or comparison etc which should decide who is the best. Yet, in our society, we are told to be the best, find the best, buy the best, every day; as if this was possible at all. How come? What effects does this have on us?

It is a true Sisyphus tale – you know, the guy who in Greek mythology who forever has to push a stone up a hill just to see it roll down again right before he reach the top –

trying to be the best or finding the best is a pointless task that can never be achieved, even if we try eternally…

except for when we do what is natural for us: being the best at being ourselves.

We are all the best at being the unique being who we are.

sisyphus on vase from nekyia (wikipedia)
sisyphus on vase from nekyia (wikipedia)

Plato’s Cave by Sam Weiss

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narrator: orson wells, animator: dick oden, music: larry wolff

This is the best thing that I’ve come across this week,  since a while actually, and it reminded me of that so many insightful and great people has existed at all kinds of moments and places in history. I got the info about the makers from the credits at the end of the film and the Long Island University Libraries…

The tale of the cave of Plato is such a wonderful critic of society, it is metaphysical, almost sprititual, and so many other things.

The beginning of it reminds me of something I read a while ago about us partly copying the synaps-connections of our parents when we are children. The synapses more or less decides how the different parts of our brains are connected. So, we are physically programmed to, partly, process and react to knowledge and stimuli more or less exactly as our parents would.

Talk about having our heads in chains… (see movie)

time to get out

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Hi!

So this is my first blog post, I’m liking it already. The sun is shining, and it felt like the right moment to start this project. I have thought about it for a long time, I have written a bit and read a lot, watched films, plays and other performances, listened to people, watched them dance…  I have talked and preached;

shared precious moments of exchange of true knowledge

and I have come to some conclusions. And now I have decided to share them publicly, starting here, today.

Since as far as I can remember, I have thought about life, God and love, about the state of humanity, about how to be… I guess many of us do. I particularly thought a lot about WHY we should be nice to each other and encourage one another. I felt, there must be logical reasons, aside from the spiritual, religious, moral or ethical ones. I remember thinking as a child, that if one could find indisputable reasons for why everyone should be nice to each other, people would change. I don’t know if that is true, or if I have found indisputable reasons, but I have found many reasons.

Along the way I developed a philosophy of life, the theory of the blooming society and the positive multitude. I have decided to publish this theory here, along with thoughts on current events, poems, short stories, quotes and other things that come to my mind…

I hope that many readers find their way to this blog, and that it’s content inspire people.

With love

Susan Florries