The stern KGB agent pounded on the door, “Does comrade kapolsky live here ?” “ No he doesn’t ” came the reply . Confused , the agent left only to return an hour later. “Open up Kapolsky , I know you live here !”, “ No he doesn’t “, “ then whos that inside ?” asked the agent. “Im Kapolsky” was the reply. “ Then why didn’t you answer me when I asked if you live here ?”, “ You call this living ? ? “.
Jokes aside , lets move on now. If I were to ask you, “ Are you alive ?“, Id expect raised brows and a yes that couldn’t hold enough sarcasm in it. Fair enough , can you explain how you arrived at that conclusion ?.Do you think your ‘ life’ in question, in reality meets necessary criterion ? Or should I have said your ‘existence’ ?
Existence is obligatory .Preservation of life is a basic primal instinct. Only your need to prolong existence is at stake. What purpose do your lungs serve other than your selfish need to breathe ?. Every action you have undertaken in your entire course of life was based on some selfish motive to further your own capacity to exist under changing environment. Adaptability is natures defence mechanism. Not even being human is a requisite for this exercise. A day spent in barely surviving through it is ludicrous. This fear of death does not imply love of life. A passive resistive existence is a parody of all that the human can discover. Rather , a crime.
Which brings me to our next question . “Are you aware ?”. Of what ? you ask . Of your self, your mind , your thoughts , your actions , your environment , your capacity , and your freedom to choose any of these. If you truly are aware , you’l know life is limitless to the extent of your own sanctioning, and in this frontier you have absolute freedom. Though freedom is not about weighing a choice or executing a decision. Freedom is being able to want to choose to make that particular decision.
Or leaving it at that.
The difference is simple .Your freedom to choose decides what exists and your awareness decides how you perceive that which exists. Resulting in what is commonly termed ‘Reality’. Which is basically yours to manipulate or claim victim to or alter with perspectives , and for good reason too . If your faculty of consciousness wasn’t functional to the capacity of defining a motive to elevate basic existence, id be talking to a single celled micro-organism with no brain.
So there we have it , this game of tendancy towards complexity is driven purely by active desire. A choice made to further motion. A desire to be , is a desire to live. Life is what it is because we desire it so. Desire makes us human. How can you keep living your meagre life, unless you actually wanted to ? Its just a matter of choice. Fate plays no role here. You can choose to live life on your terms , only if you so desire. Suppose I say you’re fated to either becoming a millionaire , or end up in jail , you still have a choice in it, if you so desire. You can make your own life miserable , if you sadistically so desire. Desire brings out the best , in will , in action , and character. Theres no shame in it , desiring to be moral , is desiring to be alive. Ceasing which , one is no longer human.
So if you were under the impression that desire is fleeting, immoral, temporal or even evil, first think how selfish you are in even being alive , and now realise how great a gift it truly is.
