life

what does it mean to be life? no, not to have a life in the sense of having multi-faceted social existence as in the case of having a work life, family life or social / party life, but life as in the grand unifying principle that runs beneath the All; the simplest principle; the ever changing constance - the running of the sacred code known by the letters g-a-t-t-a-c-a.

despite our involvement with our ego selves and the hang ups of everyday life we are from some perspectives arbitrary to a grander process that is under way. this is a process that began with the very first galactic burblings of life, the first appearance of the genetic code. since then there has been a steady march in which the theme and variety of life is constantly expanding, growing and mutating. it started with a simple self preservation program and here we find ourselves today, still a part of the process yet often quite (if not totally) oblivious to it.

this is not to undermine what we have achieved as human beings, not the least of which is our ability to cognate, generate ideas and the ability to bring these ideas into existence. however, that is not to say that these processes or ones similar to these are not being executed by other variations of life, it is just that from our perspective we tend not to recognise them, we are after all an egotistical species which my be our blessing and yet our ultimate down fall.

i write this entry not to espouse the dire warnings of our imminent doom nor to wax lyrical about some utopian ideal for the future, but merely to ask that we put aside our fragile pride for a minute - a pride which so often seems to be challenge by the mere existence of something that we perceive as other - and to think what it might mean to be life; just like all other examples of life that we can think of and all those that we can not. what does it mean for life to continue on after we are gone? (we the individual and also maybe one day the species).