5 lessons learned from the disaster that was 2020!
Let’s summarize the headbanging highlights/lowlights of last year:
1. There’s a v1rus out there!
2. Supposedly, there’s people dying.
3. It appears that Health is important for our human experience.
4. It’s very unpredictable, life, with all of these changes taking place in such short time spans.
5. It’s so hard to keep a sense of direction with all this uncertainty.
Yeah, that really is so last year. I mean, that’s really nothing new. These exact things have always been happening.
1. V1ruses have been a thing for eons, life adapts. Healthy organisms upgrade their T cell library and move on. So should you, not that there’s any specific action that you need to perform. Your vehicle does it for you, as long as you don’t trash it. Sweet deal, I know!
2. People have been dying and being born. Since, well, as far as word of mouth and the fossil record gets us. To the best of our knowledge, that’s what life entails. Death. Not to get into statistics and open up that can of worms, let’s just stick to the headliners, Top 10 causes of death globally, based on WHO published data, across 5 years let’s say. Cardiovascular disease by a large margin killer number one! Something like 60 million people in 2019. Second place fell to Cancer at about 9 million and Medical treatment lingers thereabout close to number 2. the v1rus, according to WHO finished the race at close to 1 million in 2020.
There’s a whole host of issues like co-morbidity factors and the recording of cause of death, which is another can of worms I’d prefer not to get into but running the risk of sounding to numbery here and dismissing the tragedy of death of close ones, let me just say that it’s a non issue for the dearly departed. Even the euphemism send a chill down my spine, how avert to acknowledging death are we really!
Anyhow, you get the point, Should you worry about this or are there other statistically more viable sources of anxiety on the table to pick and choose from?
It’s hard to swallow all of this, I agree, when the apparent collective effort strives to push the awareness of inherent, dare I say, built in mechanism of decay out of sight. Either by pretending that one should not worry about it until about 80–90 years of age. Preferably senile and not right in the head, so we wouldn’t be bothered too much. Or perhaps by coming up with all sorts of comforting illusions about the heavenly life after, reincarnation, the latest Silicon Valley wet dream of immortal cyber-bionics,… Immortality! Right, let’s not burst anyone’s bubble here.
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”
-Phillip K. Dick
Beliefs are not right or wrong per say, but helpful or harmful. Believing (better yet, knowing) that death is a certainty, however uncertain the timing is very helpful. A brush with death, a daily reminder of the inevitability of death and the impermanence of life can serve as our best friend and ally in life. It is only the limiting of the experience of life that motivates one sufficiently to “go out” and live it! Forget near death experiences, how about a near life experience.
Have you had a single moment of pure harmonious experience of life that you could say, there, I’ve had it! I am free to die now?
No?
What the FUCK are you doing with your life?
Now, to get back to the dying part, nothing new under the sun right? Right. Now let’s imagine that you should worry about dying from a specific cause, why not choose the most prevalent one. Cardiovascular disease, a preventable EARLY death, not to get too excited about the elixir of immortality just yet. But early death, that sounds like something you would want to avoid. The formula is pretty mind bending, earth shattering and here it is: Perfect health is a natural state! Shocker, I know, a bold statement on my part. Let me elaborate. Observe nature. See all the varying fauna, the entire zoo-tic plethora of animals running amok. Perfect health is the natural state, rarely do you see a disease-stricken animal dragging its hypochondriac feet (unless it’s a hungry hippo with some imagination) around town. Unless there’s some natural disaster, like a big fucking meteor striking down from above. Tough luck Tyrannosaurus REX! Or perhaps a more recent natural disaster like oil spills in paradise, oops!
The only diabetes/cancer/atherosclerosis ridden four legged critters are the very domesticated animals we call pets. See a link there?
3. Point being, stop poisoning your body, sleep, drink water, eat right (there’s another one of them can of worms, please don’t eat worms, that’s disgusting. Unless you’re starving stuck someplace where Wolt won’t deliver.), move your body or it will atrophy! Allow its inherently intelligent processes do their function, recycle old dying cells, rebuild new cells. You know, change the oil once in a while, it is a rental, but it’s the only one vehicle you get to experience life.
4. We find ourselves in quite the transitional period. Our civilization is undergoing a shift, 2020 has given us perfect vision, all the elements have been put into focus. It’s not like there’s anything new happening, more like, it’s right in our face now. And that is calling up some highly emotional charged responses in most of us. You are either taking this opportunity to journey inward or find it completely distraught by uncertainty and loss of direction looking at it from an outward perspective.
This year, the changes played out as a mere catalyst in the overarching trends that have been shaping up and taking place already beforehand. It is, like any major change an opportunity to step up to the plate and examine your situation, (re)claim your birth right. The self-sovereign game mode, the next evolutionary step in our human development path of a belated second birth into adulthood. Yes, looking at a 51-year-old man, it doesn’t necessarily convey the air of a fully developed, co-creative, power wielding capacity that our potential holds in store. More like an 11-year-old child with 40 years’ experience. This fear based, illusion clinging ego structure has long served its function of child preservation. Like a snakeskin, overly tight around the torso which one gets used to if the uncomfortability doesn’t outgrow the fear of letting go of the known. The proverbial mother’s tit, the womb, the golden Stockholm syndrome cage of our own making.
5. Meaning of life you ask? There is no meaning of life, expect to be alive. And it sure as hell isn’t coming from some culturally preapproved standardized set of motions from the cradle to the grave. What does that make you? A herd member, sticking together because it’s scary as fuck to realize each man is an island. There’s no rescue ship coming to get you. Second coming of Christ, Starship galactic peace corps, the reckoning of the gods of old, that’s all just another comfort pill, to remain content with the present state of affairs. Like any ideology that quickly devolves into a pile of steaming excrement only serving to keep you sedated.
Snap out of it!
Zen Masters use stick to beat their students. Gurus will try all sorts of tricks to test your limits. What a hassle.
Here’s the news, unlike the mainstream narrative that passes around as news. And this is the headline bold print, caps and all. You are it. There is no authority above you. No one knows more than you are able to know. And you know that. On a subconscious level at least.
Once you start asking the right questions and keep direction and actually attempt honestly to answer them. You’ll see that soon; those questions will implode. You will dismantle the question and move forward.
But for that, you actually need to start using that pretty little head of yours. That brain does have an actual function. To think.
And for that, you need to update your software. There’s an update pending out there. The notification somehow got buried in the pile of pending notifications that just keep growing in volume and intensity all the time it seems.
It’s time to make use of that pretty set of hardware, install critical thinking. Patch 1.1.
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Peace!
Aleksander Brankov
