What stable and consistent life is?
I don't know.
I know there is something which it is
but I don't know.
Is it when things around you -
as in ideas, beliefs, wisdom -
around you don't change much?
Is it when experiences just enhance
what you already know and understand well?
Is it when a new idea is difficult
to cognitively assimilate with your old hypotheses?
Well, the truth is that your hypotheses are merely situational.
It's just that they happened to be like this and not something else.
They became part of you before adulthood -
when some random events created some belief structures.
Now, why it becomes difficult to create another structure again?
It's because a brain is limited to hop in between different structures.
Every structure has its own network of life.
And living multiple lives is an insanely mentally difficult task.
Hence, adulthood doesn't mean a point
where one is stable, rigid, and informed.
But just that one's capability
to life multiple lives,
to imagine new worlds,
to create new networks,
to see the unseen,
to yearn for something new,
to unlearn and relearn,
to forget and think afresh,
is gone forever.
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Transitions to adulthood
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