What does holding on to things do to us?
When value is placed in the simple things, they mean much to us. The Masai tribe in Kenya sent the United States fourteen cows after the tragic events of 9/11.
It’s a very different mindset that’s hard to describe especially in such a materialistic world.
Time, it’s nothing but an illusion, it’s something that we made to synchronize events, to plan. Time is only real in that things happen in one moment, and then different things happen in the next moment.
There is a concept of time that exists in indigenous African cultures, where time is based on events, not an abstract idea. So when the sun rises or sets, that is when the day begins and ends.
I wonder if time could simply be, things happening when they happen. If you listen to African music you can hear it in the tempo, it’s very fluid, and it’s not a concrete tempo.
This is necessary in understanding a much broader understanding. When we have had something that we really like, and we lose it, or have to give it away, we might get sad.
To further explain this, the item has not been lost because it is not with you in a materialistic sense.
The item is still with you in your memories, something from the item has stayed with you. If anything, a lesson, one that you can remember and pass on.
It can be seen with people, death is as Gandalf says “simply a path that we all must take.” When you realize that there’s someone you’re never going to see again, they are not gone. They’re still with you in your memories and your heart.
While they be gone physically from the world, they’re still a part of you. When you are gone, you will be a part of someone else.
Thus the cycle keeps on perpetuating itself through time.
But this cycle is in danger, society and the world is very bad at letting go. They have economics to ensure that. There exist to ideas, you can either try to keep things the way things are, conservatism, but this is inherently foolish and for the unenlightened.
Everything is constantly changing between this moment and the next everything is infinitely different. To try to keep things the way that they are is to try to keep from progress. Progress is furthering the understanding of how things act, the true nature of things.
People hold on to their ideas and say “this is the way things go.” Things go the way that they go, because that is the way that they go. It is not concrete, just as change and time are fluid.
This is the next step forward, the progressions of science can no longer help us. If the world wants to save itself from its imminent destruction, it requires the majority of people to reach this true and simple realization.
Do not hold on to what is, simply use it to find out how things are how they are.
