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Groundhog Day: Escaping the loops of our lives
By Roland Michel Tremblay (about the author) Page 2 of 4 page(s)
I have been quite successful at preventing myself from being stuck at the same place for too long, and yet it seems I have been writing the same book year after year, without any sort of real evolution, having failed to learn anything new or extraordinary. But it works to a certain degree, it takes me a while to wake up one morning and wonder: what day is this, have I not done that yesterday, and the day before, or the month and year before? Am I not getting tired of always doing the same thing every day?
When you reach the point when you are at work and you cannot distinguish between Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and it could have been all three days merged into one without any significant difference, you know it is time to act.
What about the destiny loops? How can we find destiny loopholes to evade going through the same horrible events over and over again? By destiny loops I mean for example going through a divorce for the third time, or more likely adding another failed relationship to your vast love experience. It is more remarkable for example if an important and marking event in your life happens for a second or third time, and then you tell yourself: not again, I'm not sure if I can go through this all over once more.
Like an exam you failed twice already and this time you have to pass it, or else you're gonna start killing people, because then life would no longer be worth living. Driving test? I have three driving licenses, a Canadian, a British and a Californian one, I failed every time. I'm sorry, but I won't go through this again in France, the day I retire there. I guess I'll just have to retire in Cornwall, or take the bus, a cab or walk miles and miles.
There are many religions and philosophies out there who will teach you that you have reached some sort of stagnation in your life because you failed to learn the hard lessons of life. And once you gain that experience, once you figure out the problem and find the solution, then you will move on to other things and your life could potentially change radically.
I have experienced that a lot myself. I guess it was obvious, if so many religions picked up on it. There are always a lot of obstacles in the way, and learning to see them in a different light, like for example learning to like something you hate, might help get these obstacles out of the way.
One has to wonder how the mechanics of this existence could be setup in order to bring about the same harsh events to your door once more, so you have to experience it all again, until you have learned your lesson. Could there really be certain laws of nature being applied to permit such a thing?
Sometimes you would tend to think so, since, how could the same damn horrible event happen once more for you to confront? And once you have finally gone through it, and for once felt you learnt something new, learnt to see all of this in a different light, and perhaps from a different perspective, it never happens again.
This kind of stuff could make you believe in God or some other mechanics which have been carefully thought of for your own benefit, as if life was merely a testing ground, for you to learn some curriculum, and until you pass all the tests, you will not die. If you pass them all, or a certain percentage, then you are allowed to die. And if you fail completely, well, you will then be hit by a truck or a double-decker bus next time you go out. Because then, do you feel your life has had any real meaning?
If there are such mechanics to our existence, if truly nothing is random and everything has been planned to the last detail, just like when you play a graphic adventure game, then you do not necessarily have to involve God or some computer programmer writing your existence. As if truly this world is more virtual than real, then you could have planned your existence yourself, devise those experiences you thought you would need to learn and go through. But then, what would be the point of this? Why would you need to go through three divorces to finally understand that you need to make it work this time around, learn to compromise and love that horrible monster you're married to?
At the end of the day, who cares about learning to love the next moron you meet, learn the have some faith in something, in humankind, learn to bring some justice and peace to this world? Learning how you can cause suffering, because then, when you find yourself in that same situation where some people bully you, then you get it, then you won't bully anyone anymore, then you would defend the victims of bullying wherever you go. You never really give a thought to all the starving children in the world until you starve yourself for a while. Then you become Mother Teresa.
Come on, is this really what this existence is all about? Seems very useless compared with everything else there is in this universe. And yet, for whatever reason, or the source for this mechanic, it does appear that life could be about learning things. And if you fail, then it will be right back to hit you in the ass, giving you the sensation of some sort of loop. And then the only loophole is to learn something, try to see everything in a different light, study and pass the damn test so you can finally move on with your life. Stagnation is not acceptable. Don't marry again, you won't have to go through a second divorce.
In the end, there is no need for anything supernatural like God or a computer programmer living outside the fabric of space, planning all the little events of your life. It stands to logic that if you perceive something as an obstacle, stop right there to engulf all your energy into that little problem, then of course nothing else is moving on in your life.
The day you finally find the solution, then the obstacle disappears, you find some peace of mind. And if ever you are to encounter that problem again, you perhaps don't realize, because you know the answer. Like a computer program constantly going into subroutines. The next time it has learned, it bypasses the subroutines and it continues on its way. Or does it? There is always a bug down there somewhere, it is human nature, we never learn, we are always stuck in all those subroutines.
Now for the mind loops and the mind loopholes. The best example I can find is something that most of us are all very familiar with, and yet I believe we fail to fully comprehend the real consequences of such acts, and we sometimes even enjoy imposing it on others.
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