What is the mystery of life?

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but is a reality to experience

While watching the movie Dune (Part 1), I found this quote. It immediately got me thinking. I note it down and did not know why.

Come to think of it, it has the 3 following keywords that have mesmerized my interests:

• Mystery of life

• Problem solving

• Reality to experience

The full quote of it is below:

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but is a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process"

It is such a concentrated wisdom to be unpacked, and it was something i felt immediately but cannot explain clearly. But now with the blog challenge, I think I can, and so here I try.

The mystery of life is more than problem to solve

We often approach life in the same manner like kids with questions, expecting simple answers. Schools have been teaching us hard on some problem-solving skills, like how we use our logics to explain all complex matters, from abstract to details. We can be obsess with solving some problem in the same manner of a math question, only to find the correct answers so that we can earn our grade and show everyone that we understood.

However, despite the importance of logics, it can only take us so far. There are areas where our logics fail. Life is too complex for a simple answer to cover. We are more than our grades, our test scores, our job titles, even more than the perception from others think of who we are. Even with logic, we know there's Murphy's law, or unknown unknowns. How can we explain something so simple for things that we haven't fully understood?

Embracing the reality to experience is how to truly understand life

Accept the unknown, stay humble to be mindful of things that can always surprise us. How we move on land isn't how we move under water. How people react isn't something we can always control. What we plan isn't always going to happen. We don't know that clear of what we really want, so take a deep breath and let life teach us.

The experience comes first, the logics comes after. Didn't Newton come up with the 3 laws after he got hit in the head by the apple? Archimedes realized buoyancy force only after he took a bath. You only understand what you want after feeling the drive from your experience.

Also, logics can fool us. By making a logical choice without experiencing the consequences, are you sure you are making the right choice? Right and wrong are so relative and bipolar, as if the world can be explained so easily in such a binary mode.

For example, it took me 45 minutes to go to my work place by bus, and 35 minutes by motorbike. I have to wait for the bus, not in control, can miss it and wait for another bus in 20 more minutes. By logics, I think go to work on motorbike surely saved me time. But I decided to try the bus anyway, despite my initial logic and bias against it.

And so much I was wrong, as I experienced it. I can rest, chill, think, plan and work on the bus, unlike being in panic mode as I travel on motorbike. Instead of losing 10 minutes commute, I actually gain 45 minutes of work and rest. My logic fails to comprehend the reality of the bus experience vs motorbike experience, in a way it cannot explain. I felt more humble and blessed with this new lesson of life.

So what's the meaning of life, you asked? Isn't it the most interesting mystery? Here comes your simple answer:

What kind of reality are you dying to experience? Forget all the problems that come, and trust the logics that will rise up to help you solve them.

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