For reader's context, I'm a 22-year-old software engineer who has interest in philosophy, software and music. This attempt is a way to pen my thoughts which I go through in my day-to-day life. This is my second article where I attempt to pen my thoughts on something rather unique: Absurdity.
Life is conveniently unconventional. There are times when things are going as per your plan, and on the flip side, there are times when you have no clue what's happening with your life.
I wouldn't call myself an absurdist; rather, I would say I am a convenient absurdist. I'm not an absurdist when things are going the way they are intended to go. And when they aren't, I become an absurdist all over again. This simple switch makes me fall in love with this mental model all over again. Over the last week or so, I have been going deep within my thoughts about this topic and felt like penning this down.
Humans are absurd creatures, and most of us are absurd in our own ways. The reason why I say this is simple: we aren't sure about what we are exactly going to say while we are thinking about it.
Confused? Let me break this down for you.
Consider this: think about something you truly love. Now, say your thoughts out loud. The next thing I want you to do is write the same thing down. Not the thing which you are saying, but your thought. If you try to do this religiously, you will be fascinated to discover that all three contents are different in nature. Maybe slightly different, but different.
Thoughts act like prompts to your writings
Our brain is made up of millions of neural networks working in parallel. When we try to write our thoughts down on a piece of paper, I think it initially stimulates hundreds or thousands of neural networks within our brain to find the next perceptron to build a pattern.
Life is about experiencing the same absurdisms over and over again. The only thing that changes is the people and the context around it.
Absurdism, I feel, isn't real. This might feel paradoxical, but it's true! Nothing is actually absurd. It's just patterns which we cannot predict but have been happening in the universe for a long, long time. It might have happened to you for the first time, and that's great, but from the universe's perspective, that's just another glimpse of the past.
From an analytical perspective, absurdism is what makes us human. The random incidences, the surprises, meeting new people who become the best of your friends is just what makes us human. It's all about the perspective you look at.
Food for thought.