Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Glue

I found something. A key, a piece, a marker, a theory of emerald stone. The universe and everything in it revolves around a simple concept, among others. But the idea that prevails and rules above all is movement. This transposes well to either physical, scientific things or metaphysical, mental concepts. The universe, in its physical manifestation is built around movement. The big bang led to an expansion of atoms and particles, yielding stars and planets and gas and stone, etc. Orbits yield seasons and years; thus time is an idea of movement, constant that is. All matter is based on the concepts of kinesthetics, of moving atoms and particles that produce solids, gases, or liquids. The human body is based around movement, electricity in the synapses, oxygen throughout the body, blood, semen and eggs that yield life. Heat and cold are concepts of molecular movement. There are chemical bonds that slow movement. Science too yields a concept parallel to that of societal ideas of home, of belonging and loneliness. These bonds are never permanent, as are homes and comfort as time rips these away, as the constant motion continues. Home, though, can exist as a point in time, something impenetrable by movement, like a fact, a truth. But this argues that facts and homes never really exist; permanence may be an illusion. A device to overcome the one fact of constant motion and a need for motion, but also a need for stability to keep moving. Society leans toward progress, towards change. Its the life cycle, travel, promotions, music, movies, food, books, everything in civilization, in humanity is based on movement of some type. Moving towards more food, toward safe shelter, progression. Toward arable land, toward survival. Intertwining Darwin here. Movement is also part of adaptability, but evolution does not concern emotions or the physical manifestation of the universe. We strive for movement, for escape. That is key, escape. Whether children are excited to eat sugar to get "sugar high", or teens do drugs and alcohol or watch sci-fi or love gossip, it all involves escape. College is a more physical representation of escape but more so on an educational level apart from whatever "home" they came from. Early adulthood-adulthood yields alcoholism, drug use, or marriage and dating, escaping oneself to understand another. Older people tend to accept their fate of desiring escape and generally pine for the old days or live through others like family. ESCAPE and MOVEMENT. These are key fundamentals and human ideas.
At least this all connects at a personal level. I love the times when I am on the move, especially on the open road, with so much freedom, so much movement. I love to walk, to run, to move to fly, anything that gets me away from where I was.
Maybe this is all obvious. But everything makes so much more sense. Yes, there is still a shitload more, but now I know that answers do exist. Whether or not I can apply it personally or globally is up to me, but time will tell. I've always wondered why I'd been depressed for so long and suicidal, not because I wanted to cease to exist, but to escape. To leave and never to return, but there's a whole world and 6.5 billion other people to escape to. I long with all my soul and heart for a home, but with that is a lonesome longing for travel. For experience? Perhaps, but more so for movement, for change, for progress, for evolution. Man's infatuation with time travel, cars, airplanes, fiction, history, the internet. All forms of escape, of travel, of movement. Satisfaction is a false idea generated by hope, it doesn't really exist in a stationary form. Satisfaction lies in hope itself.

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