Is it all Worthwhile?
Latest read - Five People You Meet In Heaven.It's been a while since I've read a book that's actually touched me. Well, granted, I'm a sucker for things like lovelorn endings and lovers dying and pets being run over by cars and, well, I guess that's just about it.
If you haven't read it, then go read it. I'm not about to summarise the fucking book for you, nor give a friggin review. Baahh what the heck, fine! The book's about how an old bitter man dies, goes to heaven, meets 5 people there and is shown, plus he sort of realises along the way, that the cliched mantra of life remains: our lives are all intertwined, and Newton's Laws of Motion do apply to our lives and how they pan out.
This notion of equilibrium of life that's exploited over and over again throughout the book, about how our actions will cause reactions, as well as chain reactions, has been playing through my mind. Almost like how Newton denoted the motion of objects.
If in fact this were true, and every little action we performed would some day lead to an event that is significant, to someone at the very least, then it'd be really interesting to note how an event that entails me farting really loudly on the bus pans out in 5 years' time.
However, that is obviously so not the point.
If, like particles, we live in this jar where our lives from a distance merely consists of collision paths, and whatever we do simply sets us, and the surrounding particles, off on an altered collision path, then there are some who merely don't expend any energy whatsoever, but manage to siphon off and attain energy based on the transference of energy, and still ultimately manage to get things done.
These particles are those that we have termed slackers.
Sure, slacking in a competitive and highly-driven world of financial institutions and comglomerates and franchises is highly frowned upon, simply because you're not contributing to the maintenance of the cogs of this seemingly well-oiled complex system of gears.
However, considering that whatever we decide to do, and do, will eventually, very potentially, have an effect on us and may even bite us in the butty, since this world we live in is not made up of just us, but is affected by the rest of the beings of particles as well, and due to the energy equilibrium that we're vacuumed into, we may not even have control over the paths that are hurtling toward us, wouldn't it be better if we not try to control our paths that much?
Stacking this theory on top of the law of large numbers, where if a certain repititive action is performed a large number of times n, then the result tends toward the expected value of the action, or the mean, then in the larger sense, if we just stay still and not do anything for a large number of times, then the result will be that of the mean of the expended energy around us. However, if we were to do many many thigns to try and change the course of our lives, to make the decisions that we ought to make, then the ultimate mean will still be that of the mean of the expended energy around us.
Of course, it is right to argue that these means may be different, but considering that there is an equilibrium, is it not true that if allowed to go on for a large number of times, our actions will all tend toward a certain mean, if the law of large numbers holds true?
Maybe that's why we oftentimes hear people bitch about how "that fucker does fuck all but gets all the credit, and i'm doing etc....." So that just means that he's riding the wave of the equi-mean theory. He just manged to figure out how the world works.
So this brings me to my point. If whatever we do is going to end up tending towards the mean of whatever expended energy is in this jar we live in, the isn't it rather pointless to try and always make good on our promises, to do things to please, to live life "to the fullest"? Just let the ones who want to start the ball rolling go ahead. Because in the end, come judgment day, we're all going to be on an equal plane.
So is it really worth all the effort?
posted by Da Buffalo! @ 2:39 AM
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