Shower talk: Perpendicular Lines

Perpendicular lines are so important because they're the apex. It's the farthest you can get away from another point no matter WHAT YOUR REFERENCE point is. So if you look at things from a broader perspective, they all come together. Nature always follows orderly randomness. Orderly randomness can be perceived from the apex. That's what gave rise to life. That's what gave rise to a system, a team. The theory of emergence. How things all come together from a broader perspective. That's why perpendicular lines are so important, that's why right angles are so important. That's why a whole topic of math is related to right angled triangles.

Shower talk: Entropy is cool!

Entropy and equilibrium
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Entropy can also be thought of energy in a system that is clustered in one spot eventually spreading out evenly in the entire system so that every spot has the same amount of energy. However, when viewed outside the system, the energy level will remain the same before "spreading" and after "spreading".

Therefore entropy is increasing the equilibrium while conserving the energy within the system. See how all the laws of thermodynamics relate so beautifully?

For life (high energy systems, high organized systems that do convert energy to work) to exist sounds like a weird thing to happen if the goal of the universe is to acquire equilibrium (through entropy) but maybe life exists as an investment universe made to increase the entropy. Because of the complex processes life does to covert energy to work, the entropy of the universe increases greatly. For any high ordered, energy that can be converted to work (useful energy) filled system, it creates (equal amount of?) high disordered, useless energy (friction etc.) outside the system.

The universe is essentially trying to get to a lower energy state. But that sounds weird considering how some places in a system that never had any energy before acquire energy (through even spreading of energy from a high cluster of energy). Didn't the universe want to have no energy?

The universe wants to expand so much that even if a high cluster of energy spreads, the units (places in the system with no energy before) acquire so little energy that it is almost close to nothing. Universe is expanding and this expansion is fueled by the energy that was present during the big bang.

This leads to so many questions in my mind, so much more research that I need to do to itch my doubts, that I'm currently lowkey overwhelmed right now whoa.

But in a more philosophical sense, just like how the universe started out as a bright cluster full of energy and how it will (might) die turning dark and devoid of energy, humans too start out as little cheerful happy babies full of energy that slowly die with almost no energy left to where everything turns dark. But it's not all this depressing when you think that just like entropy is spreading of energy, we humans in our lifetime spread our energy (happiness, knowledge etc.) everywhere before we die!

Shower Talk: There's a reason why we're here

Here's something big, okay? You are the universe. You are the medium that can unlock the mysteries of the universe. You and the universe are joined to the mind, body, soul and your very own existence. You won't be destroyed for as long as the universe lives on. And here's the simple, straightforward answer to the big question, "what is the meaning of life?": all that you have to do in life is understand your relationship with the universe.

It's like emergence, you know? Actually, it is emergence. "Stupid" things coming together to form something "smart". Or let's put it in a better way: simple things coming together to form something complicated. See the relationship between two polar opposites? "Simple", "Complicated", "Stupid", "Smart"; "You", the insignificant spec in the world, and the "Universe". That's what that old Chinese theory of Yin-Yang goes on about, right?

This makes me wonder, what if the initial stages of life were even more connected to the universe than we are? Are we diverging away from our connection with the cosmos? Or are we getting closer? Where is the universe headed to? Science would say: "down". Down, to a lower energy state, to stability. But that contradicts the concept of entropy which states that everything tends towards disorder. What is the relationship between stability and disorder then? Why does such a contradiction arise?

Here's another way to look at it: if production of life can arise from both splitting of a cell (mitosis, budding) and a combination of cells (meiosis, fertilization), does that mean splitting and combining both can lead to life? Isn't that contradictory? What if it isn't? What if opposites didn't have to be contradictory? What if opposites didn't have to cancel each other out, rather, what if they behaved based on the circumstances? Don’t opposite poles of the magnet attract? What if the concept of opposite and similar is just superficial? Something which is a wave can also be a particle? Why? Maybe because it was both, to begin with? Here's a way to put it simply: there is no positive or negative, there is only both in the beginning. The perceiver is the judge. And the fact that you can perceive it to be "something", rather than "anything", is a proof that you are conscious.

This consciousness that we're given, tells us that the answer to the universe lies within our own selves. A system is nothing without the parts in it. In fact, a system IS the parts together. The set of the Alphabet is nothing without its components: letters. In fact, this paragraph that you're reading itself is a system. It will only be meaningful if I use the words following certain grammar rules. The words do not know that they are being made to follow certain rules to make sense. In fact, the words are not conscious. That is why this system of words will never be considered living. The universe is similar. It would be non-living if it didn't have conscious being such as ourselves in it. Hence, knowing the important role we play in this system of the universe, it is our duty, almost a natural one, to figure out what we are. If we do that, we can figure out what the universe is because we are the universe.

That is why it is so important to figure out who you are. You, just like any other thing in this entire universe, is versatile. You can be positive. You can be negative. But how do you judge you are "something" at a given point in time? With perception. 

• “I think. Therefore, I am” - René Descartes

I cannot stress how immensely great of an ability it is to "perceive". It literally shapes the world. But just like contrasts are prevalent everywhere in the universe, perception can be conscious and unconscious and even subconscious. The three states prevalent everywhere: positive, negative and neutral. This leads to a scope for superposition to exist. You can be anything because you have the base of neutrality. That is why the universe seeks neutrality, equilibrium, because then with it, the universe can branch off however it wants. It has a solid base. But we know there will always be a contrast (yes, I am repeating myself but understand why, because the concept of opposites coexisting is extremely ubiquitous, mutually beneficial relationships are significant for continuity of space-time) and that is the reason for entropy's existence: to counter the neutrality that the universe is trying to seek. In a sense, with entropy, the universe is creating a preventive measure to not "over exceed" equilibrium which will then again offset the entire point of being stable, neutral and equal.
 I just got really deep there, didn’t I? My whole point is that YOU are the point. The point of the universe is itself, it is us. Understanding us, will on a greater scale, mean understanding the universe. It is so simple, the fundamental rule of the universe is so simple, that it looks complicated. That is a lofty statement for someone like me to make but I say it because of the way things have been. You'd say the same too after you realize how even though the planets revolve with quite the speed around the Sun if you were to look at the Solar System right now, it'd appear to be perfectly still. Something moves so fast, it looks still. Something is so big, so very vast that we can't even scale it or perceive it, that it is non-existent to us. Even though it's really big, because it is beyond our limits of perception, it "doesn't exist". But just because we can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there. Just because we don't find the fundamental rule of the universe so easily doesn't mean it's extremely complicated. We have to change the way we're looking at because perception can play tricks on us. Just looking at something and knowing "it is something" is different from looking at something and understanding "why it is something". Knowing and understanding are different and their difference is so significant that it is often overlooked at. Recently physicists are pulling their hair out on the antimatter and matter asymmetry: "If there were equal amounts of antimatter and matter, they'd come in contact and destroy each other. That would mean, life as we know it, shouldn't exist. The universe shouldn't exist". This is true. It is a very weird disparity of the universe but that doesn't mean the universe shouldn't exist. It exists for a reason and that reason might be us (the components that comprise the universe), or within us.

Conscious of the unconscious

Someone I hold dear once asked me, "why do you fantasize about death?".

Dear you,
I don't fantasize about death. I am just intrigued by it. Because death means being liberated into the universe again. We're all organs of the universe. Involuntarily following its orders. But once we die, we lose control over our tiny lives and gain freedom that goes beyond this world.
I am simply enjoying it by marveling at the beauty of death. Not many do it. They think of death to be ominous and evil. But it's the root of life. From death springs life. I am just intrigued by interconnections seen in the universe. Because everything in the world follows a simple rule: achieving equilibrium; flowing to a lower energy state. For this to happen, two contrasting entities must be present. The high and low must exist. To truly understand universe, we must understand both the ends and their connection. That's why I look at both sides of the coin.
Right now, I'm alive.
Everyday I live, I am experiencing life with my conscious and sub-conscious mind. But what about death? How will I ever know about the other half of life while being me? For that, I have to think about it. I don't want to only think of the good but also the bad. That's when someone can REALLY think. It's not one sided anymore. I'll be a whole.

Shower talk: Meme master and Yin Yang

I know what reaching enlightenment feels like.

Because I have mastered the "name a more iconic duo, I'll wait" meme.

I put myself at the risk of sounding silly when I made those statements but it's true. Weird too, actually. It's strange how a meme asked an important question about how the world works.

Because you get to read this, I shall let you in on my secrets so you too can be a master of my favorite meme.

Yin and Yang.

Yin Yang talks about how two completely opposite things complement each other the most. The south pole of the magnet doesn't attract the north pole for no reason. Protons don't attract electrons for no reason. Opposites aren't the most iconic duo for no reason. It's because that's how the world works. You see, the first law of thermodynamics more or less talks about this phenomenon.

"Energy is neither created not destroyed".

Due to the fact that the above statement is true, the world has been able to maintain it's equilibrium. When stark contrasts meet they create consistency.

In and out.

What goes up comes down because of gravity. Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces of nature and up and down are one of the iconic duos in the world. This relation itself shows how this idea of Yin Yang is deeply rooted into the universe.

North and South.

It's the way of the world. No pain no gain. What goes around, comes around. All of them talk about the same principle. To even get something is to give something first. The world is attached with strings. When you pull something, it pulls something else with it. When you put something at stake, you'll get what you've been working for. Nothing in the world is unbalanced. Something always exists to fill the gap. The electromagnetic waves go up and down. The water flows with crests and troughs. There's just no one straight way to anything. It's a series of highs and lows. It's a series of sacrifices and achievements. It's a series of pitfalls and stepping stones. It's a series that flows; one that is connected.

Black and white.

No one can experience only the good or only the bad. Nothing gets done only with hardwork or only with luck. Even if it does, its consequences balance out the pure luck or pure hardwork. If you win a lottery, you might face hardship further trying to save the money or you might spend it all relentlessly that you'll fill yourself with guilt later. If you have struggled extensively for the outcome, you might suffer from stress and illness.

Success and Failure.

Remember that no matter what happens in this world, it'll always get balanced out. Sometimes this fact will bring happiness. All the time and effort you spent on something shall be balanced out by your success. Sometimes this fact will bring sadness. All time time you've lived shall be balanced out by your death.

Because I realized this, I have mastered the meme and reached enlightenment.

Here's how you can change the world

This is not a shower talk. This is an actual result of my own tiny little research that I did. I will provide the links to my references at the end. I started thinking about why there are no major changes happening related to the degrading environment after watching the video: "The lie we live".

So, how do we change the world for good?

Simple answer: By first changing the way we speak and instruct.

Got you curious, eh? Let me elaborate.

Haven't we all been taught not to throw trash around and not to waste electricity and not to waste water and not to cut trees and what not to do ever since we were kids? The education system thinks by telling children at such a young age about what not to do, the children can be conditioned in a way to not harm the environment. But what the educational system is unaware of is how wrong their methods of conditioning are!

Where we went wrong is the way we've been teaching the new generations or just people in general. We've always been hearing the phrases, "don't throw trash", "don't pollute the earth", "don't cut trees", "don't waste water". But what's wrong with these phrases is that they turn out to be counter-productive. Our brains are wired in a way to dismiss negative sentences and even worse, sometimes, to completely go the opposite way of what's being told in those negative sentences. There are many experiments to back this up. No matter how good the reward might be for "not doing" something, our brain subconsciously believes "not doing" it to be a wrong thing and we all end up doing what we're told to NOT do. Humans should change the way education works. Humans should change the way they phrase their sentences for making a difference that matters. It's as simple as changing the negative sentences into positive ones to bring about a REAL change. "Do it". Those are the magic words. Our minds strangely accept positive things and dismiss negative things. That's how it has always been. So from now on, instead of asking people to not do, ask them to do. To make a difference in the world which could lead to finding the cure of cancer or even end global warming, we have to first learn to speak and instruct the right way. We have to learn to say the sentences the right way. Tell people, "please do plant more trees", "please do care about the hygiene of your surroundings", "please do save water because it's a precious resource", "please do quit smoking because it will improve your health". The words, "please", "do" and "because" are associated with positive thinking and reason. Using these can bring about the change humans NEED to survive in this world. "Change" that can literally end world hunger and bring world peace. The power is all in understanding communication and psychology and using it to make the Earth alive again.

References-
http://www.nlpco.com/2008/08/negative-commands/
Research paper: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jozef_Maciuszek/publication/267337868_Don%27t_pay_attention_to_what_you_see_Negative_commands_and_attention_bias/links/544d75bd0cf24b5d6c42b598/Dont-pay-attention-to-what-you-see-Negative-commands-and-attention-bias.pdf
Video of the experiment (where a person is told to not do something but ends up doing it): Could you kill a kitten?

Well, that's how you can get people to change the world for good but how about you? What is something that you can do to make a difference? When people think of "making a difference", they think it's a huge task. A task so huge that only the most powerful can do it but it's false.

Feeling that only the most influential humans can make a difference is a "lazy follower" mentality. IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK FIRST. Change can happen even with the smallest things YOU do in life that might seem insignificant but they aren't because even the smallest things can lead to a huge impact! I'm pretty sure all of us know about the butterfly effect. I'm not here to ramble about "complicated" stuff. If anyone wants to really make a difference and make the world literally a better place to live in but are completely lost, let me help you kickstart your potential. It can be as simple as quitting to eat meat which has the huge potential to end world hunger. It can be as simple as quitting to smoke which has the huge potential to reduce pollution. It can be as simple as using biodegradable bags instead of plastic. It can be as simple as growing a plant and taking care of it. It can be as simple as picking up trash from the neighborhood instead of throwing waste on the streets. It's just THAT simple and yet when people think of change, they think about big politicians and systems and the government and what not. Think about it, without people like us, all the "big guys" are nothing. So let's decide to go the right way, support our own self and vote for our own betterment instead of supporting someone else! It's high time everyone redefines their meaning of "change".

Shower talk: Slow suicide

Slow suicide
We're all in a slow suicide
Because this world is definitely not right
And we don't know
We don't know because it's very slow
Slowly
With every decision we make that goes against our true happiness
With every time we give in to stress
Ignoring our passion is slow suicide
Slow suicide~

Shower talk: Surreal

Do you ever just feel
Completely inferior and useless
Like a bug squished under a heel
For instance, you set yourself definitely doable and practical goals
And you try
But you just can't achieve them
And at nights, you cry
And you are occupied by things that don't matter that much
And they take up so much of your time
Your mind filled with clutter and such
You can't achieve your goals
You just fall into a void
Feeling lost
With guilt, you can't avoid
Like a sore loser
And there are all these other people out there
Much better than you are
And you're wondering just where
You went wrong
And why things are like this
And why you can't reach your goals
And what did you miss
And why your life is filled with unimportant things that are apparently "important"
It's a chaos
Doing something because you're obliged to do it
Not because you want to do it
You're at an utter loss
And that just eats up so much of your life
It makes you feel worthless
That's why, "Only pursue your passion", I'd say but
In this world, it's not possible
You have to do whatever it takes to make the cut
We are forced to go the society's way
We are forced to act a certain way
Our life is forced
A pressure that won't go away
Our life is controlled
Our minds have gone astray
Our life is chained
To think we don't even have control over own lifes is just
Scary
Surreal
In every way

Shower talk: Why death is just as beautiful as life

I'm pretty sure most of you have thought, " ugh I'm so done with life. I just wanna disappear" at some point in your life. If you didn't, kudos to you! Your life must be filled with absolutely no hardship (which is practically impossible) or you must be SUPER optimistic (wow teach me your ways). Anyways, I was wondering why people think of death when faced with so many problems and I think it maybe because we all want to go back to our real Mama, just like how kids want to go to their parents when things go wrong. Our real parent here is the universe. It sounds super surreal but hear me out~

I love how beautiful death is
It's like becoming one with the universe again
Losing all selfishness
Just letting yourself fly away
To a place where everything was born
There's nothing like losing all hope
Because death is always an option
And it's beautiful~
It's like going back to our mother's lap
-x-o-x-o-
Everyone cries when they're born
If they don't, welp it's because they're probably already dead or because they're just an exception (almost everything has an exception)
But not everyone cries when they're dying
People usually appreciate life
But I appreciate death
Not the process
Since some of them are brutal and cruel
But the state and the consequences
Just losing all pain forever and letting it go
Literally becoming free
With the potential to be ANYTHING
You can even turn into a star, literally!
Or a tree, to support life with your death.

Which I plan on doing. I want to be turned into a tree after I die. A star would be pretty rad too but there's no guarantee, it might be like reaching for the stars (pun intended of course) so I wanna give life with my death and turn into a tree.

Shower talk: What's good now might be bad later

So I was just wondering, what if everyone bad: the murderers, the rapists, the wrong-doers (according to the law) were wiped out from the Earth? I know it sounds morbid but I wanted to know if Earth would really be a better place if all the "bad" was wiped out. Then somehow I came up with the answer myself, so hear me out~

Truth is, no. It's not that I'm being pessimistic or negative but even if all the "bad" (again depends on a reference point but let's assume bad things according to the law) were to be wiped out, bad would be born again since life here on Earth is "flowing". From once being "evolutionarily" fit to being extinct and new, better species evolving to continue the "flow" of life on Earth. Let me put it this way: bad things once were good. Like how killing others for food was fine in a primitive way and how now murder isn't fine. Even if everyone bad were wiped out from the earth, eventually what is considered right will be considered wrong in the future. It's a flow of "bad to good". A species once fit enough to live on earth being unfit and going extinct is just one example of good turning to bad and a new species being born from the "once bad" would be an example of good enough to even better. So, what might be good now can turn into bad later and be replaced by something even better, with the good and bad still flowing. Just like there's darkness and light (yin and yang), there will always be good and bad no matter what. I think evolution is a flow of bad to good, not exactly but it's a flow of good to better. Also, in the end, everything depends on your perspective. Just like how Physics problems don't make sense if you don't have a reference point, things in life won't make sense if you don't have a clear perspective.

Shower talk: Breaking rules shouldn't break you

I'm sorry this shower talk is in caps, I was super ecstatic when I wrote it.

Usually, we fear breaking rules because we think its consequences might break us, break our emotional state of well being, break our acceptance in society etc. But, hear me out~

IT'S ALMOST NORMAL TO BREAK PETTY RULES AS LONG AS THE MAJOR RULES AREN'T BROKEN JUST LIKE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE PARTICLES GO ACCORDING TO THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES AND IT'S SO NORMAL (it's not like something that would almost make you "not supposed to exist" in the universe) TO BREAK THE OTHER INSIGNIFICANT RULES AND IF YOU DO YOU'RE JUST DIFFERENT FROM THE REST. For instance, when the nitrogenous bases are paired in the DNA, the DNA polymerase might break the conventional pairing rule of A to T and G to C. These "variations" could cause a mutation which could probably even lead to speciation! It's thanks to these "rules being broken", species have evolved. I DON'T EVEN THINK IT'S CALLED "BREAKING A RULE" IT'S JUST DIFFERENT IN THE WAY IT IS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FOLLOW THE SAME STUFF AS its kind and that's what makes it what it is but I'm not here to say "break the rules", I'm just here to say "it's okay to break the rules" and sometimes breaking rules can make you stand out, be different. Be EXCEPTional.

Shower talk: Alien life depends on your perspective

If anyone asked me: "Do you think aliens exist?", I'd reply saying yes. If anyone asked me: "Do aliens exist?", I'd reply saying "Maybe they do, it depends..." because hear me out~

Alien life: it exists.
It might exist in the strangest way we couldn't even have imagined of. Life itself is a broad notion, according to our reference point, it's stuff that can breathe or reproduce. But, something is defined as "living" if there's emergence in play. That's the basic foundation of life.
Emergence: things (either living or non-living but since we're trying to define life, let's assume non-living things) coming together as a group to perform one function. That is life. Just like how proteins came together to turn into the first living cell, on a whole new different planet, a whole new compound might have come together to perform a whole new function (it might not be breathing or reproduction, since that's our current reference point for living things) and it'd be a whole new living thing; something we couldn't even have imagined of since our perspective is in a whole other world or even dimension. So, aliens exist. But again, it depends on what "alien" means to you and what scientists mean when they say they're "looking for alien life out there".

Shower talk

I have found myself having very deep conversations (with myself of course) in the shower. I kept noting them down on my phone just so that I don't forget what I talked about for almost an hour with myself but then I kind of wanted to share it around, maybe pick up some critics or people that agree with me because why not since things like blogs and internet do exist. My usual shower talk is about philosophy and science; the relation between them. Sometimes they can get very "sciencey" or just "deep".

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