The Force

Within all of us is The Force. The Force is a tricky thing to grasp a hold of. Perhaps it's best not to grasp it at all. It is simultaneously light and dark, good and evil, knowing and ignorant, masculine and feminine, chaos and order. The Force is many things. And The Force is You. The Force is what drives us forward and it is also what holds us back. It inspires our movements and blocks our path. But what is our path? 

Many people ask themselves: what is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What is the true nature of existence? What is my destiny? Why is life full of evil and strife? What is the meaning of everything? What is my purpose? Is there anything truly good?

These are dumb questions with stupid existential answers.

What is the meaning of life? To live.

Why are we here? Because we are.

What is the true nature of existence? Continued survival or a way of living.

What is my destiny? To journey to a destination. 

Why is life full of evil and strife? Because it is.

What is the meaning of everything? Dumb question. Ask something specific. 

What is my purpose? Better question but still dumb. I don’t know; only you do.

The last question, however, is a decent question. I’d argue there certainly are things that are truly good and filled with the purity of life. The original Star Wars trilogy, written by George Lucas, is the first one that comes to mind. Jesus Christ is a Christ is a close second (He is subordinate to God the Father after all). And the last one I can think of is the Tao te Ching by Lao Tsu. 

Star Wars is a movie from 1977 A.D, yet people still talk about it. 

Jesus Christ is a man from over 2000 years ago, yet His words echo in eternity.

Lao Tsu’s Tao te Ching was written 400 years before Christ and yet his work inspired Star Wars 2400 years later. 

What do they all have in common? They have stood the test of time. Good things last. Personally, it does not matter how you feel about George Lucas’ space wizards, or “the messiah,” or the Tao. Your feelings are just that: feelings. Objectively, these three things are acclaimed by many different people across the globe. All for different reasons and yet simultaneously for the same reason: because they are good.

The Truth is people know what is Good and what is Evil. Some of us are willfully blind to it. Others cannot cognitively articulate it, but they know it intuitively. 

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “there is an old illusion. It is called Good and Evil.”

This is dumb. You may disagree with me on this. I would suggest you rethink this notion.

Friedrich Nietzsche was smart. He said many smart things. But he was human, so he also said many grossly incorrect things. Nietzsche believed God was dead and that man could invent his own morality. Morals are self-evident. To think otherwise is vain egotism. The idea that morals are somehow relative is unwise. Relativism is for the egotists. Relativism is for people so drunk on thought that they have forgotten how to do things properly.

Nietszche died in denial of The Force. He also inadvertently created the Nazi Party. Although it wasn’t much of a party. It more like a cult that promoted systematic genocide. Oh well, too late to undo Nietszche’s “superman” idea.  

In the Book of Proverbs, it is written, “The hearing ear and the seeing eye,

The Lord has made them both.” Think about that. What does it mean?

Blind people can see Truth. 

Deaf people can hear Truth. 

Truth, Love, and Beauty are all real tangible Good things. Surely, you can see and hear that, but only if you watch closely and listen intently. 

I have a commandment for you. Stop being an existentialist. Start existing. 

There are things in your life you are ignoring. Tend to them. The Force believes in you. 

Flowing through all things, there is a balance. 

There is no Peace, without a Passion to create.

There is no Passion without Peace to guide. 

Knowledge stagnates without the Strength to act.

Power blinds without the Serenity to see.

There is Freedom in Life.

There is Purpose in Death.

The Force is all things.

And I am The Force.

Now esoteric ideas, like the ones I’ve expressed, are fun to toy around with. However, they aren’t very practical. It is much easier to speak like you know it all without actually knowing a damn thing. It is much easier to feign goodness than to act out the Good. 

The easy path is tempting and “comfortable.”

The difficult path is rife with truth, uncertainty, and struggle.