A Journal of My Thoughts

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 ( EN ) - Here is the million-dollar question, folks! What, exactly, is time? Ah, yes, yes... We all know what time is; it's either the ticking of a clock or a day on the calendar. It's something we deal with everyday, something that we all think we understand. But do we really? No, not really. I've checked it and believe me, there are millions of facts and theories out there, but again there's not one clear answer yet... Neither from scientists nor from philosophers... Now... where did this come from, you may ask? Funny but it's true; through a 2014 movie, Interstellar. Sure, I watched it then, when it was in theatres and loved it. But I forgot it completely up until yesterday. In fact, it wasn't the movie that got me here. No, I didn't watch the movie again. It was the video essay that I've come across -the one that I posted¹ here too. After I watched it, it got me thinking... For starters, it made me realise that...

👉 Türkçe'si Aşağıda 👇 (EN) - As Eckhart Tolle puts it, there's no past other than it's being a memory, or no future other than it's being an anticipation in our minds. Now is all there is to live ... the past gives us an identity and the future holds the promise of a fulfilment but both are illusions that are being constructed as thoughts in our brains over and over again in time. We need to learn to make peace with our past and need to learn to let go of our worries for the future. Life is unpredictable, I know. And more often than not, it doesn't go the way we plan it or the way we would like it to go. No matter how hard we try to control every aspect of our lives, we simply can't since we never know what comes next. However, this doesn't mean that we have to live our lives like leaves blowing in the wind. NO. We certainly resist the wind. Though we shouldn't resist life itself, especially when life brings a change. On such times, the more we...