how to be

being the best at being a unique being

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All beings are unique.

This gives that a particular being can only be “the best at” being the unique being that this particular being is.

How can you compare yourself to others if everyone are unique? Sure, comparisons can be interesting, for example, they can help you see in which areas  your talents are the strongest, or what is better or not so good for you under given circumstances, but there are no guaranties for that.

To really compare two things to each other fairly to decide who is the best in some aspect, they would be required to be tested under the same circumstances and well, considering the fact that all beings are unique and that we all experience everything in a unique way, according to my opinion, this is as close to impossible as something can get.

A good example is taste in music, which is so obviously unique for every individual. We might consider a piece of music good or bad, but something that I dislike can be a fantastic experience to someone else. There might even be music that most of us consider horrible, lets say an unfinished, falsely played cereal commercial to choose an extreme. Hearing even this tune might for a particular person be an enlightening musical experience, and if it can be that, can it not then, under given circumstance, be the best for someone? In one aspect “the best”?!

What does that say about being “the best”?

Look, if a piece of music wins a competition, it doesn’t necessarily mean that this is the best piece of music in that competition, but more that it was the piece of music that most of the jury liked at that given moment in time. Ok, lets take another example. Lets take a running competition. If a runner wins a race in an arena at a given moment, it shows just that – this runner was fastest at that given moment in time under those circumstances. But does that make this runner the best runner of those who participated in the race? No, it doesn’t, because the runners are all unique; someone of them might have had a bad day another might be insecure, yet another might be really fast but haven’t developed their technique yet…

I think that one could reason like this around any competition or comparison etc which should decide who is the best. Yet, in our society, we are told to be the best, find the best, buy the best, every day; as if this was possible at all. How come? What effects does this have on us?

It is a true Sisyphus tale – you know, the guy who in Greek mythology who forever has to push a stone up a hill just to see it roll down again right before he reach the top –

trying to be the best or finding the best is a pointless task that can never be achieved, even if we try eternally…

except for when we do what is natural for us: being the best at being ourselves.

We are all the best at being the unique being who we are.

sisyphus on vase from nekyia (wikipedia)
sisyphus on vase from nekyia (wikipedia)

Plato’s Cave by Sam Weiss

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narrator: orson wells, animator: dick oden, music: larry wolff

This is the best thing that I’ve come across this week,  since a while actually, and it reminded me of that so many insightful and great people has existed at all kinds of moments and places in history. I got the info about the makers from the credits at the end of the film and the Long Island University Libraries…

The tale of the cave of Plato is such a wonderful critic of society, it is metaphysical, almost sprititual, and so many other things.

The beginning of it reminds me of something I read a while ago about us partly copying the synaps-connections of our parents when we are children. The synapses more or less decides how the different parts of our brains are connected. So, we are physically programmed to, partly, process and react to knowledge and stimuli more or less exactly as our parents would.

Talk about having our heads in chains… (see movie)

A FAIRY TALE – EL CUENTO DE HADAS – SAGAN (2003)

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A FAIRY TALE

Once upon a time there was True Love in the middle of Nothing. True Love was full of joy and harmony, but it was lonely, it had no one to share everything with.

So True Love made a hard decision, and split itself into billions and trillions of pieces, screaming of pain, but also singing in joy! Because True Love knew, that once all the billions and trillions of pieces had fallen into harmony, it would be able to see and love itself as the wonderful creation that it is! And it would never be lonely again.

You are a part of True Love, and so are your friends and so are your enemies. Remember your origin, and you will look upon the world in a different way.

EL CUENTO DE HADAS

Una vez habia Amor Verdadero en la mitad de Nada. Amor Verdadero era lleno de felizidad y harmonia, pero se sentia sólo, no tenía a nadie con quien podía compartir todo.

Asi que Amor Verdadero hacía una decisión muy difícil, y se compartió en billiones y trilliones  de piecos, gritando del dolor, !pero también cantando de felizidad! Porque sabía que, una vez que todos los piecos habrián caido en harmonía, !sería capaz de verse y amarse a si mismo por la creación fantastica que es! Y nunca más estaría sólo.

Tú eres una parte del Amor Verdadero, y también lo son tus amigos, y tus enemigos. Recuerda tú origín y mirarás al mundo en una manera diferente.

SAGAN

En gång fanns Sann Kärlek i mitten av Ingenting. Sann Kärlek var full av lycka och harmoni, men kände sig ensam, den hade ingen att dela allt med.

Så Sann Kärlek tog ett svårt beslut, och delade sig i billioner och trillioner bitar, skrikande av smärta, men också sjungande av glädje! För Sann Kärlek visste att när väl alla de billioner och trillioner bitarna fallit på plats, skulle den kunna se och älska sig själv som den fantastiska skapelse den verkligen är! Och den skulle aldrig vara ensam igen.

Du är en del av Sann Kärlek, och så är dina vänner, och dina fiender. Minns ditt ursprung och du kommer att se på världen på ett annat sätt.

DAS MÄRCHEN

Es war einmal Wahre Liebe in der Mitte von Nichts. Wahre Liebe war voll von Freude und Harmonie, aber es hatte niemanden womit es seine Liebe teilen konnte.

Also traf Wahre Liebe eine schwierige Entscheidung, und explodierte in Billionen und Trillionen Einzelteile, schreiend von Schmerz, aber auch singend von Freude! Weil Wahre Liebe wusste, das wenn einmal all die Billionen und Trillionen Teile Harmonie gefunden haben, wäre es fähig sich selber zu sehen und lieben als die wunderbare Kreation die es ist! Und es würde nie wieder alleine sein.

Du bist ein Teil von Wahre Liebe, und so sind es auch deine Freunde, und deine Feinde. Erinnere dich wo du herkommst, und du wirst die Welt anders sehen.