20251130_PotentialForContentment_in

For the first time ever, I've felt true contentment. I was honestly surprised it was even possible in this age, as we collectively face an endless barrage of mindless content.

Through the culmination of my childhood and adulthood spent overthinking about the future and reminiscing over the past, I completely forgot what it felt like to be present in the moment. Yet for the briefest possible time, I understood who I am and how I fit into the nature of the world.
So, how was this possible?

a) I surrounded myself with the hills on all sides.
b) I escaped the overpopulation of ideas.

You may know of the first point, and how easy life gets when we reconnect with our roots.
But this may be the first time you're hearing about the second, and the most important point I'd like to emphasize.

Bear in mind, both are frequently mistaken to be a consequence of each other. But there's no doubt that they are mutually exclusive. And I now strongly believe that a combination of these two factors is the key to unlocking the human potential for contentment.

The irony is that the truth we seek is right in front of us, except we tend to look everywhere else. At least, that's what I've been doing so far.

I hope that together, we can deepen our understanding of both the philosophical and the economical natures of the world around us, which requires both a fluid mindset and a rigid approach. And perhaps, we will come across findings that can help us make sense of the chaos within each of us, which is the same as the one around all of us.

Personally I have a lot of questions that I want answers for.

a) Is the universe affected by the fate of one miniscule planet?

b) Is our entire planet affected by the decisions of a fragmented human society?

c) Is the broader human society affected by the actions of a single individual?

d) Why should any of this even matter to the individual?

e) Why does one individual face any conflict with the other?

f) How do some individuals face favourable outcomes and others not so much?

g) Why is this inequality not accepted as such?

h) And most of all, why do we keep forgetting that all of us play a part in a larger game?

I believe all of these questions are intricately tied to the majority of things that bother each one of us.

My realizations have helped answer some of these questions. They've been immense in undertaking yet simple in their understanding. And for a long time, I was debating with myself on which was the right platform for posting about these pursuits.
But it's evident that the personal life is incomplete without the professional, the professional life is inconsistent without the aesthetic, and the aesthetic life is nothing without either.

So if you're noticing the same posts across multiple platforms, it's only part of a larger design, of a whole that needs to be communicated entirely, to the most amount of people and for the maximum amount of good.

Here's to creating an alt3rnate world, one where the collective is prioritised over the individual. Where the feeling of community can hopefully relieve us from the isolation of capitalism and help us focus on the welfare of all.