Being Perfect
No matter how hard you try, you won’t find an error in Universe. You won’t find a seam that could be torn apart and, wherever you look, everything works without a single hitch. From simple and graceful blueprint of quantum reality to complex galactic filaments and mind-bending black holes. Everything is accounted for.
Planet Earth is no exception. Molded by surrounding forces, life sprouts from it. Plants eat molecules, herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat herbivores, and all of them decompose to molecules for plants to feed on. Simply speaking. But that’s the gist of it.
Bodies devour each other in flawless ouroboric ecstatic swirl on all levels of phenomena, and there is no power in Universe that could make it break. The world is naturally perfect. It follows that so are you.
Not good enough, not acceptable. Perfect.
Perhaps you were born handicapped and you don’t see it that way. However, there is no impairment without a gift and no boon without affliction. Even if misery seems to outweigh happiness, and no matter how unfair it may appear, you materialized in perfect accordance to the same rules that unequivocally apply to everything.
Similarly, when confronted with natural forces greater than ourselves, the outcomes obey the laws set in place equally for all.
Is tiger wicked for being a tiger? Is virus evil for doing what virus does? Is natural disaster bad and for whom? After all, and as they say, a forest grows more vigorously after a fire.
That is what people call fate. We can argue about determinism versus free will till we are blue in our faces, but exactly as a swimmer tossed into a mighty river gets carried downstream no matter the effort, there is also an undeniable degree of freedom that comes with being a human drifting in ruthless but impartial currents of causality.
And that, too, is innate part of perfection of the world.
It’s shocking, but this tiny bit of mental choice, this limited free will is at the root of all our dilemmas of good and evil. For obvious reasons the outreach of free will is hotly debated in context of natural forces, but it unarguably encompasses hundred percent of what we call morality. That is to say, the problem of what is the correct thing for human being to do. And that in turn is then cause for maybe ninety percent of human suffering, because humans today can see neither world’s nor their perfection.
Just consider — when you know you are perfect, when you see the whole world as complete and impeccable, the only question that remains is whether you will take responsibility for the fact and behave accordingly.
Then again, facing the truth, can you choose not to?
