Everything In Time

Consider the scenario in which you are driving down an unfamiliar road. Around a bend, you approach a light, which you are late arriving at. As you begin to slow, the other cars begin to accelerate. At the moment, the flow relative to the self has been disrupted. Our perception of our arrival in life is due to the expectations we’ve placed on time. However, the expectation of the self in time is irrelevant. Time is a fluid mechanism. Fall foliage will canvas at its own pace. The leaves do not all fall at once, nor will they grow back all at once.

Life moves relative to itself; everything is a direct reflection of the being. Proceeding into the context that we’ve created for ourselves is a piece of a greater puzzle that is unbeknownst to the context. These pieces fit together by the individual who makes decisions that align with themselves. Nature’s canvas of fall colors arrives according to the flow of time. Choices arise according to the flow of the context, in which the context is constructed through what materializes around the decision.

Materials: Context Constructed

We may consider the construct of the context in which we exist to be a rigid mechanism, contrasting with time. Meanwhile, the materialization of the context itself is construed through response. What exists around the individual is a response. If the individual is in the breath, the context is the out breath. One could contemplate that life itself is a reflex, as choice is an unconscious apparatus bridging flow and context. Like color needs light to exist, context needs flow. Choice is the perception, just as our eyes.

Furthermore, the construct of the context becomes concrete through a decision. Life is relative to the flow, and what becomes concrete is dependent upon what is decided upon. Deciding between two paths limits the individual to only two concrete possibilities. Flow itself is fluid; rigidity stems from the characterization of the context. For context to arise, there are two requirements: materialization and characterization. If materialization is the response, then characterization is the value of the response. Sometimes, the perception of color is necessary when putting together an outfit. Other times, color adds no value to the conversation, such as when opening the pantry. An outfit and a pantry both consist of an array of colors; however, the value of color holds in both scenarios provides a different context.

The Undercurrent

Flow carries an undercurrent that drives possibility, outcome, and determinants forward. This undercurrent may be recognized as the thread that connects existence to itself. Action and decision create a new thread, and the effects continue. However, this thread is not simplified linearly. Flow exists outside the realms of perceptions of time, as time is irrelevant to the universe.

“Quantum entanglement, a notable phenomenon from quantum theory, is valid independent of the physical distance between the particles: experimentally determined properties of one particle are correlated with the properties of its counterpart, even when there is a large distance between them. Such non-local effects predicted from quantum mechanics are at odds with our view of the world, as the entangled particles seem to be non-separable.”

Nature Computational Science. (2022, November 21). Pioneering Quantum Information Science. Nature News. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00368-0

All the outcomes are waiting along the string of possibilities. I prefer to refer to the thread that connects us all as a possibility. Choice is the signpost of personal determination over the flow. When the individual is presented with a choice, the decision only holds value to the individual, as flow is detached from the value of the decision. In simplest terms, the flow will respond to your decision and shift with your actions. Flow carries no inherent agenda; it carries only possibilities.

“I’ve Been Looking for That Piece”

Decisions necessary for the individual to make will present themselves to the individual at some point in time. The string holds the information of all possible outcomes, and the individual will arrive at each outcome as it becomes necessary. As the individual proceeds into the context of their lives, pieces of the puzzle will arrive. Focusing on one piece of the puzzle will close the mind to the appearance of another. However, it is necessary to recognize the role of the puzzle along the path. Life works with multiple puzzles at once; one may consider this to be the multifaceted behavior of existence.

Pieces of different puzzles may arrive, and it’s the individual’s responsibility to place them where they see fit. Each piece, representing a decision, serves to be part of a greater context, both in the puzzle and outside of the puzzle. If one puzzle is work life and the other is home life, the individual decides where they keep their computer. However, there is more to life than both puzzles, and that is the existence of the randomized state in which all the context belongs. One may not know the piece they are looking for until it’s been found.

The Intersection

Occasionally, the individual may feel as though no pieces are being delivered, or it may feel as though they are arriving too late. In both cases, the arrival of the pieces is part of a flow that comes with no agenda. The metaphoric intersection for life can be utilized in a great deal of ways. A yellow light will turn red. One may arrive at the same stoplight from a different direction, gaining a new perspective. Every time one arrives at the intersection, the context will have shifted, and the decision to turn left, right, or continue straight will shift the context further. Let the pieces fall as they may; you don’t know the light has just turned green. Surrender to the flow.