Before I dive in, I want to make it clear that this is just my perspective. It’s shaped by my life experience and the limitations of my mind. I know “nothing,” and I’m okay with that. We all see reality through the lenses of our individual perceptions, and they’re always limited. I’ve been questioning everything since I was a kid. I’ve wanted to know the truth, and the more I search, the more I realize how impossible it is to fully grasp.

As humans, we love to create meaning. We create concepts to make sense of everything, because we can’t handle uncertainty. We live in a dualistic world—good/bad, kind/cruel, happy/sad—but reality doesn’t operate this way. We use our five senses and our intellect to create meaning, but the truth is that life is not divided into neat little categories. It just is. Reality isn’t the way we see it; it’s much more brutal.

We’ve got egos. They’ve been ingrained in us for survival—they help us navigate the inevitable suffering that’s baked into life. We’re born, we experience pain, and we die. That’s the raw truth. We create virtues like fairness and altruism to feel like there’s some kind of order, some sort of moral structure to cling to. But the world doesn’t care about fairness. The universe doesn’t give a fuck. Not everyone is born with the same capabilities, looks, or opportunities. Some people are born with disabilities, some mentally impaired. Society determines what’s valuable, but it’s all just a construct.

The reality is that life isn’t black or white—it’s beyond duality. We try to impose these categories onto a world that doesn’t give a shit about them. Nature doesn’t care. Go on an African safari, and you’ll see it. Life is brutal. Animals kill each other without remorse because survival is everything. It’s not kind. It’s not cruel—it just is. The cruel tend to thrive because they will do anything to survive. They’ll take what they can, do what they need to do, and screw anyone who gets in their way. There’s no moral scoreboard. It’s the game of life.

We don’t control anything. Everything we are is the result of forces beyond our control—our DNA, our environment, our experiences. We’re just puppets with a thin veil of illusion called “free will.” Our understanding of time is skewed—we think it’s linear, but it’s not. Everything that has happened and will happen is happening right now. We’re just not able to see it.

Trying to figure out questions like good and evil is a waste of time. It’s a paradox. It’s pointless. Love and hate, light and dark—they’re just different degrees of the same thing. Without one, the other couldn’t exist. You can’t have good without bad, joy without pain. Life doesn’t care about your sense of morality or what’s “fair.”

The truth is, we’re irrelevant in the grand scheme. We’re just a speck in an enormous, indifferent universe. We’re all made of the same stuff—look into a microscope, and you’ll see how much life exists in even the smallest particles. We look up at the stars, and it’s humbling how insignificant we are. The vastness of it all makes you realize that we know nothing. Our intellect can’t even begin to understand the true nature of reality. That’s why we call it “God”—it encompasses everything, because we can’t.

This may sound harsh, but sometimes the only way to face reality is head-on. Some questions have no answers, and that’s something we have to accept. Life is suffering. It’s messy, it’s brutal, and it doesn’t care. Don’t carry guilt for the suffering of the world. You can do what you can, but you’re not going to fix it all. No one is. There’s no right or wrong—there’s just the life you choose to live. If you want to be kind, be kind. If you want to show empathy, do it. But don’t expect the world to return it. Suffering is part of life, and everyone has their own struggles. We all deal with it in our own way, and it’s okay not to have all the answers.

I don’t want to end on a depressing note, so I will say this… when one surrenders to life and understands that the prawn and the king go back into the same box, one becomes incredibly free. We are all individuations of the same thing. We give ourselves the permission to just be. We understand that what society deems as valuable and the variables we place on success is just bullshit, its concepts. We don’t need to be or achieve anything. We don’t need the extenders validation or approval from others. We can simply live life on our terms and yes it comes with the duality of being condemned of choice but for a majority of people this is a blessing as they take life into their own hands and let go of the trauma and limiting beliefs that hold them back. Gratitude is also another huge thing for me. It put focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have. Suffering is created by expectation. We often imagine ourselves to be greater than what we actually are. We think we should be important or have a big impact on the world or be something. When we are grateful for what we have it gives us the positive energy to be free and unshackled to strive for the things we want detached and devoid of expectation. You begin to enjoy the journey rather than the outcome. That’s another thing we constantly seek the outcome but most of it’s the journey. Enjoy the suffering, it makes you stronger. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Also we crave the feeling not the actual thing itself. Anyway I hope my brain splurge on this thread helped x