I have been struggling with a hard problem for the last few days. We know certain things and don't know so many things. So, when we make a decision, it is generally based on the knowledge and awareness we have accumulated in the domain of the known. Which career is good? Civil services, because they give you security and social prestige. We have been told that security and social prestige are two fundamental desirables. What if the people around us have never tasted the joy of creativity and exploration, and that's why our decision has been biased by what we know? What if a creative and exploratory career gives us true joy?
At every stage of development, certain things look very attractive. A cold drink used to look very attractive in our childhood. When cold drinks were first introduced in India, they were a big attraction at wedding ceremonies. Today, people try to avoid cold drinks. Why? because we have come to know the dangerous effects on health. Were we stupid when we used to drink these cold drinks? No. We were not. We were not aware of the dangers. Similarly, when we decide on our careers, enter into marriage, and form friendships, we have a certain level of awareness. With that level of awareness, these choices made sense. Now we have grown more aware, and many of those choices seem restrictive.
We can see that there is no meeting ground with some of our childhood friends, we are not mad after the same doll or toy, the marksheets of different standards, including the Boards, no longer carry any relevance, those few marks that will make us cry during those days no longer carry any meaning and that network of relationships which we earned by hard work has actually become a burden to carry. We can see so many things, we were very sure that they would last a lifetime, but we have lost their value. If we recall our reaction when we got a few marks less, and it seemed like a life-and-death situation, we will laugh at the same time. What if our present reaction is also equally laughable? Why don't we realise that nothing is certain and nothing is permanent?
Wave-particle duality theory tells us that we can never tell whether an electron is a wave or a particle. When observed, the electron behaves like a particle. All possibilities exist, and when we form a belief, one of those infinite possibilities gets manifested. When we decide to buy butterscotch ice cream rather than vanilla, a past memory crystallises the decision in the unconscious mind, and the conscious mind learns of it a few milliseconds later and then owns up to it. Awareness makes us realise this. That awareness gives us the freedom to disown the decision made by the unconscious mind. The moment we are aware, we are free to make choices. As if the electron were reassumed to have a waveform. The more certain we are, the less aware we are, actually. Certainty means observation of life with the eyes of the known. On the other hand, when we observe reality without focusing on the outcome, life is full of possibilities. Our minds have been trained to perceive uncertainty as something undesirable. What if uncertainty is the biggest blessing?
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