the REAL me.

I decided to talk about life today. I've been thinking about this for a long time, ever since I can remember. I shall hence share what I feel about life in this entry.

Thinking about life reminds me of this song by Sarah McLachlan, called "Ordinary Miracle". It was featured in the movie "Charlotte's Web", which was shown in November last year and is a film adaptation from the book by E. B. White. I suppose we've all gotten so used to living and it seems so ordinary to be alive that we don't realize what a miracle life is.

For one thing, I have always been pondering, why am I living in this body? Why am I looking through this pair of eyes? Was the whole world passing by without me before I was born? Will the whole world continue on without me after I die, without me knowing what is happening? Or will there be life after death? Or perhaps reincarnation? I suppose most people have had some of these thoughts some point in their life or other.

I suppose there are many "theories", or perhaps concepts, about what happens after we die. Some believe our souls will ascend to heaven (it's either very big or very crowded), while some believe in reincarnation (but what about the increasing populations?). Whatever the case is, I believe most religions generally accept the concept that we do not completely cease to exist after death.

My personal belief is that our body is merely a vessel for our soul, to allow it to carry out its spiritual journey, hopefully attaining enlightenment (what I mean by enlightenment here is the realization of the meaning and significance of life) in the process. But what happens after we die is another question. Perhaps it will be like in the game "Final Fantasy VII", whereby our souls will become part of the "Lifestream". I haven't been able to complete the game, so I do not fully comprehend the concept of the Lifestream yet. However, my idea is that when we are born, an infinitesimal part of the Lifestream leaves the main "body" to become the soul of an individual, and after we die, our souls will return to the Lifestream, adding upon it our thoughts and experiences gained throughout our life, hence causing the "collective unconscious" to evolve.

To elaborate, perhaps we were never meant to be individual souls. I suppose a good analogy would be that of a big piece of plasticine, where u can pluck out many small pieces to model into humans, animals, or anything at all. And in the end, when the time comes, they will join back to being part of the big piece of plasticine. You can then pluck out another small piece, but this time, it will be a mixture of the different "small pieces" from the first round, hence creating unique personalities. I don't really want to think about how life started in the first place, how the Lifestream came about, or how the single-celled organisms evolved into what we are today. That's assuming that Darwin was correct.

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