How the New Age Misled Me
For some people, the ultimate purpose in life is to find permanence. They try to attain it by achieving a permanent income or settling with their family. In this process, there is always scope for improvement. What is permanent is real, a lesson we already know as children. Some lessons are learnt from childhood, some exist in our mind even before we are born. However, the person seeking permanence in life encounters the stark reality that nothing we earn or amass or call ours is permanent in life. Where is permanence? Is seeking permanence a delusion? Perhaps it is, when you seek what can be lost, like material things with an expiry date. When you seek things with longer expiry dates, they will remain with you longer. So, can we say permanence is relative, depending on the longevity of the things that matter to us? We must rightly jump to a conclusion here: permanence depends on the things that we consider, which also gives the relativity hypothesis a strong foothold. The question rem...