The only philosophy I’ve is no philosophy.
Because I think life is too dynamic to be rigid. Life and time are like a flowing river. You can’t touch the same water again. And so it is with philosophy. Today I might not like eating pizza, but that’s just the truth of this moment. I can never be sure of the next moment. And how can I be? It doesn’t exist yet.
How often do we assign certain identities and traits to certain people? Of course, patterns are part of nature, but just because something happened in the past doesn’t mean it will happen again in the future. I might have been an introvert 10 years ago, then I turned into an extrovert and I might be an introvert again. Why the rigidity? I can only decide for this moment, right? This moment I feel like talking and being expressive with people, so you might see me as an extrovert. Tomorrow I may wake up and decide to practice strict silence until I feel like it. Life is fluid! And so are people. We change every single moment! There’s no certainty about the world, and so it is true for us humans.
In this moment I'm writing this, you will be reading it in some other moment. Who knows what's happening? As you're reading this, hundreds of thousands of people are dying. The only certainty life holds is its end, and you never know when it's coming. One moment we are here, and the next moment we aren't. Just like that.
So every single moment, we are dying and being reborn again. The past moment is gone. It's history. It's a story. It exists in your mind.
Have you ever watched a film you love after a gap of so many years? Don't you think your perception keeps evolving or might even change completely after you watch the same movie after years? Have you ever gone through something painful in your life and at that time you didn't understand what was going on, and after years when you look back at it you have a whole new perspective on it and you can see things clearly now?
The whole point is, life is fluid. It's not about external situations. They'll keep on going, and so will you. But the way you are changes every single moment. Maybe that's why when some impactful event in your life happens, you feel something different inside you. That first taste of success. When you read a book that changed your life. When you discovered your favorite musician. When you had an impactful conversation with your friend. All of these events are just a medium, which are making you realize the ever-changing reality of you. Most of the time we aren't aware of it.
