We face various conflicts in our lives. Whether to play with friends or concentrate on studies is one of the most common conflicts of the students which has now been replaced with a conflict between the concentration on studies and spending time on social media and mobile. Adults often have trouble establishing a work-life balance. These conflicts are the reflection of the ongoing struggle between comforts and ambitions. We get some comfort due to the stars in our horoscope, we are born with, or our past efforts. Some choose to enjoy these comforts and pleasures while some delay gratification, constantly move along the X-axis, and have a very linear view of life. Others choose to work hard for their ambitions and give away the pleasures and comforts, move along the Y-axis, and have a "two-dimensional view of life". They grow in worldly terms and that is the reason why they occupy the best of positions, become industrialists and intellectuals, and develop the capacity to look at life from a different perspective.
There is no doubt that growth along the Y-axis is quite fulfilling. The growth along the Y-axis may be in different ways. Learning different subjects, reading diverse books, learning skills of performing a task like an expert, developing logic, learning to build frameworks, learning the art of negotiation, human psychology, and knowledge of Geology, Physics, and Biology. There may be infinite ways in which one can explore the Y-axis and each of these ways is quite fulfilling. One grows with each of these learnings.
However, we may travel along the latitude and longitude and measure the entire Earth, but it can never compare with flying. The realization of the third dimension is amazing. I would have traveled by flight quite a number of times, but when the flight takes off, it is always an amazing experience. The big houses and the big airport get converted into tiny dots. The intimidating mountains and rivers get converted into a small curve on the canvas. That's the beauty of the growth along the third dimension. When we explore the third dimension, we get to see life from a very different perspective.
Most people have such a tunnel vision of life that they ignore every hint they get about the third dimension. Not so that they do not see the stars in the night, the life and death of the people around them, the mountains and rivers, and the magic of nature, but they ignore all these to stay safe inside their two-dimensional world they feel secure within. Thinking of death is too intimidating to them and just close their eyes to the fact and create an illusion of safety for them when death is just waiting at the gate. It's a waste of time to think about what exists beyond the visible world. Thinking of the cosmos is a waste of time. While the people inside the room themselves close their windows and doors to reject reality, society adds to this ignorance by connecting the people having closed their minds to reality and confirming the ignorance of each other. As if all the people with closed doors and windows are interconnected inside a big closed building. Yet nature shakes that building often in the form of earthquakes and other natural disasters to make these people aware of the third dimension.
Often people exploring the third dimension are questioned by the people having a horizontal worldview. Of course, growth along the vertical axis does not make any sense to them because they do not have the capacity to understand that growth. For them, airplanes are just some toys flying high in the sky and nothing beyond that. Unless one travels in an airplane, he can not appreciate that experience. For the "achievers" in a two-dimensional world, "flying" is a waste of time. However, when we look down from the window of an airplane, everything in the two-dimensional world looks so trivial. I feel that evolution takes time. It is said that human beings evolved from apes and some of the apes evolved to become monkeys. Not so that monkeys are not happy inside their own world. Probably they are happier and in a more blissful stage. Happiness may be a product of ignorance of possibilities also. The real test is when a monkey by chance becomes a human being, whether he would like to become a monkey again. Monkeys being minkeys will most probably resist becoming humans because they do not know what being human means and feels.
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