What brought you here?
That’s the question, isn’t it.
What are you here for? Your breath is the only one with the authority to tell you that. Other people and organizations may claim to know your purpose. But if it contradicts what you resonate with, they can’t compete with that.
Resonate. It’s a physics word. It’s when your energy signature, what makes you who you are, aligns or constructively interferes with what you’re hearing or seeing around you; what you’re striving for that day. That resonance gives you a feeling of being in “flow”, a key component of happiness.
When I was studying for my physics undergrad, and I was working on my first research team, I felt the imposter syndrome, sitting next to these professors with advanced degrees and decades of experience. And I said to them; I expressed my insecurities that I know nothing compared to them.
Their response floored me and has stuck with me; they said, “We know nothing.”
Me: “???”
Professors; “Yes, compared to what there is to know, we know NOTHING.”
These were PhD’s in physics who claimed to know nothing, when they know more about the physical laws that govern our universe than virtually anybody on the planet. Their message to me is that the difference between knowledge level of everyone on that research team, including myself, was basically negligible compared to potential knowledge.
And it stripped me, at least in part, of the imposter syndrome that threatened to paralyze me. And I was able to move forward in my part in the research, understanding that I would not ever learn everything about everything, but only what I could in the time given to me in, what happened to be a very specific problem in relativistic chaos.
Though I cannot know everything, my goal is to take what I learn and use it to make every time and space I encounter better than I found it. Whether I attain that goal is another matter.
What we DO know, what we CAN know, that even approaches that infinite expanse of potential knowledge–the infinite capacity of the universe, or information–are the patterns we see that connect things.
And the more we connect, relate and find patterns, the more we can be in “flow”. It can give us peace to reduce anxiety. What we all know on a basic level is that everything is waves. (Wave Particle Duality)
What I’m trying to say is; you know the answer. All you need to do is breathe, and it will come to you. You have authority over your life. You get to decide who you are; what you are living for.
We don’t live in a determinate universe as physicists used to think. We live in a universe of choice and chance. Your life is not already decided for you. Your life is yours to choose.
With my life, at the moment, I’m working on a dystopian fantasy novel. I’m using this blog to post my progress with it, any obstacles I face, how I am overcoming those obstacles. I’ll keep you updated until the end product.
Come back for progress updates as we build the story’s community. Feel free to share your experiences, also. My wish is that we’ll all be stronger together.
Universe Rules.
Universe Rules 