Quantum Insanity
Posted by mike on October 11, 2008
It has been an exhausting month of shuffling from one project to another trying to get them all going as quick as possible. Imagine yourself trying to start off half a dozen or more plates on a stick spinning at the same time. (Have you seen those talented Chinese ladies do that?) And that is just the beginning. Once those plates start to spin you will need to keep them spinning and in time add a few more plates. It is tough enough to spin or juggle objects of the same size and weight. Imagine doing that with objects of various dimensions. Translate this metaphor into daily tasks and that is the state where I’m currently in at the moment.
I suppose we are all faced with various tasks both at home and at work. In a previous post, I tackled time management and how much we unknowingly throw away precious time by indulging in petty activities perhaps a few insignificant seconds or minutes at a time but taken altogether, translates into precious hours in a day, days in a month or weeks and even months in a year.
It is not so much about keeping up with time and competitively getting the most things done in a given timeframe but about simply doing what needs to be done. Except perhaps the fact that we have defined time to the nano second, nothing much has changed since man attuned his life to nature’s cycles even prior to the number of moons it takes to get something done.
Perhaps what makes it different now is the number of choices of mind boggling things to do or be and our insatiable appetite for knowledge and experience makes us want to try everything out including the unnecessary ones.
Einstein postulated that time is relative. My take is that on one end of the spectrum, there is a frame of mind that makes time spin so fast there is no time to get anything done. On the other end, there is a mindset that makes time so slow that life practically comes to a boring standstill. And yet, both mindsets look at the same timepiece ticking away, enjoy the same sunsets and sunrises as well as faces of the moon. My mind is so malleable I sway from one end to the other. The trick is finding the point where doing things become enjoyable with the least amount of pressure.
The universe has amazing ways of revealing its mystery to us. After many months of trying to understand by experiencing the quantum phenomena of “the external world is a manifestation of the inner world”, I am now in agreement that the universe is intrinsically a potentiality until our perceptions and attitudes come into play to define the dimensions of the world we see and experience. As we alter our inner being without necessarily defining it in absolute terms, the external world unfolds accordingly and all we have to do is take pleasure from the magnificent revelation of its diversity.
Healthy living is like putting on the appropriate lens of the mind to preserve our sanity as certain dimensions of the universe can drive us into the depths of insanity. It sounds as easy as pressing the remote button to change how the world appears when we get sick of the same old story. My grandson marveled at a worm in a cartoon and I said it was a cow not a worm. He stuck to his word and later pointed to a tiny worm on the shoulder of the moose that looked like a cow to me. Same picture different views.
I know some people who wear dark glasses at night (both literally and figuratively) and complain they can’t see anything or worse…imagine things that aren’t there at all…like McCain and Palin who actually believe their lies and delusions despite facts and common sense that say otherwise. Good Luck Pax Americana.
It is not about WHAT we see…it is all about HOW we see it.
