we know what to do to make things better, so the questions are harder in examining ourselves
It’s that time of year all over again and it’s travelled quickly if you’re above a certain age and way too slowly, if you’re below another, leaving Einstein’s relativity to prove itself: beyond the equations and complexities of ageing. Simultaneous perspectives competing for space through intimately woven factors in time. So, the scales are important as we move between levels in wrestling our days and the news late at night and in a way, it’s comical to think how we live while piling anxiety on most of our choices.
Well, of course, you’re not alone in feeling some of the things you do and yes, our cultures may be different and societies mostly, too, but a constant thread pulls us together where fear, joy, jealousy and rage by-pass your skin in its colour and grade while north, south, east and west submit, to the contours of nature. In fact, pretending otherwise wastes so much time as our needs scatter denial and ancient demands ride roughshod, over the plans of somebody else.
‘Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.’
Abraham Lincoln
So, lost time and energy are never coming back unless like celestials, we’re travelling in orbit. Scheduled to repeat the same histories in a millennium with diverse and sprawling types of health. That can’t be right from a position of hope because we’re all invested as travelling folk while journeys to the doctor or maybe the hospital, remind us of clocks that are still running down. No, you’re far from alone in being human: you’re a vessel among veins in stretching so far with plans to live to the best of your abilities but the truth is there waiting patiently, as entropy chases you down.
No doubt, 2024 will bring more of the same as befriending the unknown helps to move things forward. It’s our number one fear, and in a 2015 Tedtalk, the American business author, Simon Sinek, spoke about the relationship between Game Theory and conflict. In explaining ideas of ‘finite’ and ‘infinite’ games where the former relates to playing to win and the latter, playing to extend and survive: he exposed a truth about the natural units of health economics, like losing weight or years of life gained. It’s true, we’ll do what it takes to win or step up in games that are finite and infinite as we rush to compete, without knowing the opposition. In other words, we’re so focused on our objectives that we fail to realise the accompanying strategy may just be self-defeating.
In saying so, climate change quickly springs to mind because some of us are playing to win financially in what is clearly an infinite game and where others are playing harder, to survive. The planet itself principally doesn’t care and it’ll go whichever way we take it, meaning unless we wake up to a socioeconomics dressed differently to us all, the winners and losers will find out there are no more games to play.
So, we may be destined to ignore existential responsibility and ideas of consequentialism as we bow to demands and our insecurities. The contrary reality of nature and nurtured influences versus agency and accountability, only makes that campaign more complex and protracted.
The years may seem infinite where our self-view is so finite.
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