The Real Choice in an Imaginary Truth

Inhale, exhale. Let’s be real.

What more can one want besides the life they’re given to become the life they choose?

Somewhere along the way I have grown up and have relied on this thing called choice. To see what is and choose what will be? Do my choices extend this far? What is the distinction between destiny and choice of direction?

What is real and what is masked as reality, but is perception?

Can we know the difference? Can we learn the difference? Is there a difference at all?

In philosophy class the debate was about whether our reality exists completely and solely in our mind. ‘Do we imagine it all?’, in essence, was the question. Is there a physical world or is it purely thought that we live in?

Immediately one leans to the side of a physical world being truth. But, how can you prove it?

Well, we all exist in the same reality and we both see a chair and agree it is a chair we can touch. It physically resists our body, so it must be there as a physical reality.

How can you prove that? The question remains.

How do you know another person exists across from you now posing debate on this issue? Do you know it is a fact? Or do you think it? Or do you imagine it?

Ooh la la. The brain.

What a marvelous device. We can’t even figure it out. We, using our brain’s thoughts, cannot decipher the human brain.

I think it is because, and touching on the above mystery, it is not entirely physical. It must work in conjunction with something that surpasses the physical dimension. Say that yes, we have a physical body, with a physical environment. Is that all that is real?

Real.

What does that word or thought mean? Real, so we can touch it? Real, so we can see it? Real, because we taste it, smell it, hear it? Or does it require all of these to constitute real? How about real, because we sense it in that place inside that is yet to be named and defined? We all know it exists. We all know that it isn’t a mere 6^th sense, an intuition only. It is a myriad of sensations, probably all serving a specific purpose of receiving information and deducting knowledge, but we don’t know or label them in specific terms. Does that mean they are not there? There is so much that science cannot prove. Isn’t that exciting?

So, do we have both, physical and non-physical realities, working within our brains and bodies simultaneously? Where is the line drawn between biological and spiritual, or is it imperative that a line not be drawn? These are things my mind, body and soul know and do well; yet I do not know the answer. No proof of anything on this most basic level of knowing vs. perceiving, reality vs. imagination.

So, if we live in imagination only, then it can be assumed that we have choice over our path. Destiny and fate is different all together isn’t it! It relinquishes control. Does one have to believe in and accept destiny for it to affect their lives? If you allow destiny to navigate your course, it does; is that how it works? Or is it a plan you simply participate in, but can’t decide on? Perhaps we are creators. Perhaps we decided on some paths to be presented before we were born physically and now rely on ourselves to make the most of them.

So many questions. And we all have one of these spider webs. Are they at mercy to the winds? They make such an enormous net, colliding and tangling and releasing. Either way we approach it, imaginary world or solid physical world to live in, our brain’s capabilities are as incomprehensible as the word forever.

It’s like the question “Can you measure forever?” “Can you imagine forever?”

Or another question “Is there one pure truth in every situation? Or does each individual involved have their own individual truth?”

I guess what we believe is our choice. But that doesn’t mean it’s the truth.