The Math and Science of happiness.
I believe I’ve realized the math and science of happiness…
Ahhh, science. In life every system gravitates towards entropy and new little systems are formed which, themselves, move towards entropy. Entropy pushes life towards equilibrium, and on the way each path spawns new little systems of chaos trying to reach equilibrium. Life is like some giant fractal – each branch holds another smaller branch; everything in life becomes self-referencing; disorder begets order, which begets disorder, only to repeat. The beauty of entropy in our lives is the way it constantly hands us random things, over and over, making it seem like fate is at work. Really, it’s not fate that plays “I Can See Clearly Now” on the radio after you feel you’ve had an epiphany; it’s that same probability that when you throw craps, you’ll come up with combos of 4′s and 6′s more often than 12′s or 10′s. Entropy throws curve-balls that you’re not expecting, and puts everything in it’s right place.
Entropy makes life change from order to disorder, always gravitating towards equilibrium. In gases, for example, the particles move out and away from each other randomly until they’re equally distributed across an area. They reach equilibrium, but not without chaos.
The self-referencing entropy is chaotic, and your choices in life are what tells chaos to branch off here… here… and here into new little systems which will try to reach equilibrium through chaos. It continues to constantly hand us random things, but in such a way that our amazing human brains find gestalts, look for patterns, and try to complete the correlation. Our reactions to the random events we’re presented with dictates the next little system; we are like stones, thrown in a pool. We can’t control the ripple that echoes out from our point of contact, we can only control our point of contact, our trajectory, and our inertia. When it seems “fateful” that you met someone on a bus, or that you saw an opportunity, there’s actually a pretty clear chance that you were going to experience that event anyhow – our brains are amazing in that we constantly seek to connect part A to part B. Life is not something we can control, per se, but we must choose to experience.
The way we perceive our self directly affects the way we perceive the world. The way we perceive the world affects how we react to situations. It affects the type of people we attract towards ourselves, it affects the type of situations we allow ourselves to experience. If we’re not open to a certain situation, it will pass us by, and we’d never notice. The concept is similar to the whole “The Secret” phenomenon – though there’s no mysticism about it. It’s the same concept behind the law of attraction. If we perceive our world in such a way that we would be open to a certain experience, when life hands us that experience, we’ll be ready for it. If we’re not ready, we’ll never know it existed.
If you don’t realize you love yourself, you may not be making the choice to heal yourself. If you don’t make the choice to heal yourself, you may not meet the man of your dreams, or be thrust into the job of your dreams… It’s all self referential.
Entropy will ALWAYS continue to present us situations – if we love our lives, our world and the chaos that surrounds us, entropy will hand us great things as it moves towards equilibrium. If we are salty and sulky and despise our lives, subconsciously we resist entropy’s efforts to give us what we want. There’s no manifestation about this theory, there is only acceptance of the beauty of chaos moving towards equilibrium. It’s all math and science…
So instead of sitting in traffic, banging your head on the wheel and cursing other drivers, take the time to appreciate how it feels to drive, to live, to experience. Sometimes the situation is such that we need a cataclysmic change to jump-start our appreciation for chaos, random order and disorder. If that’s the case, I urge you to push yourself out – jump ship and pull the ripcord, because once you experience the epiphany that chaos is going to eventually give you what you want, life becomes joyous and wonderful.
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