Where Do You Want To Go?
The answer to this question, might be easy for some and might be as blurry as it gets for others. But what most people don’t realise is how profound this question is. When I’m meeting someone interesting for the first time, I start off by asking the 5 W’s. Where do you want to go? What do you want to have? Who do you want to be? When did you start? And why do you want to get where you’re going, why do you want the things you’re pursuing and why do you want to become such person?
According to science, there was nothing, but the entire energy of the Universe jammed into something in the size of a pea, before the Big Bang. In other words, everything was one thing. One being. One something. But whatever it was or was not, it would have called it self. One self. The Self. So, all there was, was I. If I was something that gave birth to all beings, it’s not crazy to assume that I was. Or as before the creation of chronological time there’s only the now, hence, I AM. From this point on, things got really interesting.
If I am, you are, we are. What can I become? What can you become? What will we become? From this level of consciousness, there are two possibilities: Who am I? and Who can I become? Who are you? Who can you become? Who will you become? Ok, hang on a minute! If there are only two possibilities, how am I going to know whether I’m being who I was or whether I’m being who I want to be? Well, let’s make it easy then and create a third possibility: whatever or whoever is paying attention to whether you’re the same as you were before or whether you’re someone or something different than you were. An immutable being or thing that accompanies the transient version of who you want to become. Let’s call this something or someone The Observer.
At the beginning, if all there was was The Self which seems to have miraculously split into the past self (I was), the present self (I am) and the future self (I wanna be) and also we’ve discovered the Observer, we can then conclude that within every single one of us, there are these four mysterious entities. Thus, you and I are the exact same being, thing, self, resulted from a different answer to the question which made us apart in the first place: Who can I become? For each different answer we come up with to the same question, a new perspective is created. Different answers to the question of life will result in different perspectives of the same thing. All of which exist in the real of infinite possibilities of what or who you can become.
Once you make sense of this, you will no longer be able to judge someone and will only have compassion and empathy for everyone. After all, it’s all the same Self. The experience of an incapable judger and fully capable lover is a life of light. An enlightened experience of a distinguished Self. You, me and everybody else. The sum of what we’ve been determines the potential of what we can become. Hence, we’re never there. We’re always here. Now. Doing everything we can to get somewhere. And we’re paying attention. To our selves. To other selves.
So, where do you want to go?
