Saturday, September 2, 2017

The importance of the "unreal"

When I tell people that our reality isn't actually "real", they mistakenly take my meaning as: "nothing we are seeing or doing has any meaning or any importance". This is absolutely NOT true. The importance of everything is in the experience of it.

In other words: although everything we see is NOT comprised of matter, is NOT objectively "real", the experience we are having couldn't be more real, and it has great importance.

And even further-
The stuff we experience makes us who we are, and these experiences will be with us forever, will have formed who we are, and are the critical factor in our accumulation of knowledge and wisdom, and drive the progression of our growth-path forward to whatever it is that we will eventually become. So we should not belittle these experiences we live through by seeing them as diminished by the fact that they are not "objectively real" and/or solid. We should revere them as the boards and nails with which we build the structure of our eternal selves.