Life is nothing but a funny, farty play. Enjoy it!

 

Matter and energy overlap each other so holistically, so comprehensively, so thoroughly that one is the other looking backwards. The unfolding phenomena make them appear different. In essence, though, they are the same. Matter is nothing but energy in hiatus with the foundations of atomic and molecular structure. It’s a transitory state from uncertainty, probability and full potential of the pure energy in the void chambers of nothingness to a kind of fixity, certainty and harnessing of the already-existing potential in the form of visible particles. It’s a mere fluid pause of energy in space and time.

Energy is matter free of its molecular and atomic bondage at the lowest rung of visibility. As we move up to pure energy from the material manifestations at the lower order, going through various transitory states at the quantum and sub-atomic level, the fixity goes on decreasing. You may say ‘from everything to nothing’ in our laymen terms. Patterns, certainty and identity melt away. The last of the tiniest quarks give way to almost nothingness, pure energy, pure potential. The visible matter is just a fruit on the tree of pure potentiality that defines pure energy in the vacuum of nothingness.

Take earth for example. You have water, ice, air—different transitory states of the same element—in the environment. Beyond our planetary atmosphere we have the dark void defined by cosmic rays and dark matter. This is an incidental bubble in the pop-up play of creation. Gravitational forces and other favourable factors help retain this bubble. The sunrays provide fuel to the cyclical game of matter-energy transformations within the bubble. A beautiful system of regularized events and phenomena emerges. At the cosmic scale, it’s a bit more sophisticated atomic and molecular arrangement of energy, nothing more than that.

So my dear human-centrist theorists, please recognize that this earth and the drama of life on it is a bit larger atomic arrangement. There is hardly any qualitative difference between a simple atomic arrangement and earth as such. They are just numerically different. If you feel too large for your skin, stand on the terrace on a clear dark night and stare into the starry distance. To the cosmic immensity, an ant and an elephant on earth are the same. Well, but the ant and the elephant are entitled to their grandiose plans here on this little mud ball. You, me and all of us are entitled to the same. Play your drama joyfully. Don’t miss the little things that bring a smile. Appreciate the smile of a flower, applaud the airy dives of a butterfly, hail the rains and go stomping in the monsoonal mud, feel the kiss of gentle kiss of the breeze on your skin, salute and acknowledge the ferocity of storms, roll in the green hilly pastures, bathe in mountain streams, enjoy your tea at a roadside tea  stall, bless a child, give a coin to an old helpless beggar, throw grains to the chirpy birds, chase away the bully feral dog and come to the aid of a meeker one, share your food with others at the office canteen, congratulate the office peon for looking smart and energetic, the list is endless my dears. Little thinks that can give us a smile are countless, so why wait in vain for the bigger reasons which are so few. Little causes of smiles are the sinews that will one day make the nest of your happiness, which one day gets us joy, appreciation of life and gratitude for being alive. Keep smiling my dears!