"Everything has weight". I've been thinking on this a lot lately. Ever since reading "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, I've chewed on his main theme that life seems at the same time to matter intensely and not at all.
I've experienced different periods, even in the same day, when it feels nothing matters whatsoever, and again that everything matters very much. Such an odd experience but it seems to be 'part of life'
I've heard that book referenced a few times recently ... Going to have to check it out.
And yeah, that's a concept I ruminate on a lot. The whole "universe is massive so everything is meaningless" thing doesn't quite hit for me when the thing that matters in my model of the universe is my life — which matters very much to me.
Excellent, Adam. Chaos theory is demonstrated with such things as a dripping faucet and atrial fibrillation. But the best example is the one you used...our lives.
"Everything has weight". I've been thinking on this a lot lately. Ever since reading "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, I've chewed on his main theme that life seems at the same time to matter intensely and not at all.
I've experienced different periods, even in the same day, when it feels nothing matters whatsoever, and again that everything matters very much. Such an odd experience but it seems to be 'part of life'
I've heard that book referenced a few times recently ... Going to have to check it out.
And yeah, that's a concept I ruminate on a lot. The whole "universe is massive so everything is meaningless" thing doesn't quite hit for me when the thing that matters in my model of the universe is my life — which matters very much to me.
I just need to get my butterfly to flap its wings in the right direction.
Thanks for the reminder Adam.
"Everything we do has weight"
I'll be pondering on that for a while.
Thanks for reading, Stanley. That's the line I find myself thinking about a lot, too.
Excellent, Adam. Chaos theory is demonstrated with such things as a dripping faucet and atrial fibrillation. But the best example is the one you used...our lives.
Thanks, Paul. I spent some time on the chaos theory Wikipedia page but stopped once my ears started smoking. I'll leave it to the experts.