Being Alone and Pleasures

Society tells us being alone is bad. It’s considered to be synonymous with laziness, carefree, introverted, useless and so on.

Being alone to many or rather by society is seen especially as something we were forced into, not something we actively chose.

I mean, who would want to be intentionally alone right? After all, having friends is fun. We can talk, joke, socialize and do a lot of fun activities together.

Compared to being alone by ourselves where we are silently doing one activity that no one really knows nor is involved in.

You read a book on crime in your leisure time from your bedroom and no one knows. Of course, you can create a reading group and read together but you get my point right?

Sure, we can extrapolate activities done alone into a group event but they are still largely alone.

After all, even in a reading group, you still spend the majority of your time reading and comprehending the book after which you socialize the remaining finite time.

Being alone is often seen as the last option in a multiple choice answer.

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Metaphysics (2): Change and Cause

Note: This is the second installment in my comprehensive summary and an opinion piece of this book.

In the first essay, we have broadly discussed about an object, nature of circularity and whether a whole is greater than an individual part or its sum.

In this essay, we will be dealing with the nature of change and cause and its perspective from a metaphysics angle.

Changes

By change, I mean an object showing a different property than its previous one; whether that property can be recovered or not does not matter.

An irreversible change is something of a child becoming an adult and a reversible one is of lifting a child into the air and bringing them back on the ground.

Before furthering this topic, we will define a term. An event is something where there is at least some change involved which is opposite to a static nature.

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My Problem with Hustle Culture

Hustle culture is considered good by some, great by few.

“It’s a good mindset. It helps us grow”, they say.

But perhaps there is some truth to this. After all, it is better to be focusing on a generally good goal over being completely aimless about life.

Perhaps it is better to serve society’s expectations and live an ideal career that brings value to society.

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Metaphysics (1): Table, Circle & Whole

Note: This is the first installment in my comprehensive summary and an opinion piece of this book.

Don’t we all have a time where we think about what nature constitutes and what does it really affect it or doesn’t affect it?

Like what is a chair or the world in general.

Why can we only eat plants and meat but not wood? Why is this this and that is that? What metrics constitute exactly this and that?

While a lot of our doubts get solved by science or losing our natural curiosity, metaphysics attempts to solve these nonsensical questions.

Or rather than solve, gives us a skepticism or first principle thinking of the world from its absolute base that makes things as it is.

Metaphysics is a subsection of philosophy just like the other subsections: ethics, logic and epistemology.

In simple terms, metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality that attempts to clarify and understand it.

Though if you want the literal meaning, metaphysics means after the physics or beyond the physics in Greek.

This does not have any strong relation to physics however. It was simply Aristotle’s book named metaphysics after he wrote on physics and was named as such.

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Why Multitasking is Bad

It’s easy to admire multitasking. It’s understandable. After all, having the ability to do multiple tasks at once sounds like a dream.

Not only does it save time but also gives time to do other tasks since two tasks were done in parallel but this is not true.

Multitasking means that we are poorly doing two tasks instead of one right simply because we cannot humanely concentrate or focus on more than one task effectively.

For example, it might be trying to do your work while watching a movie.

Our brain simply cannot multitask deep work. While we think so, we aren’t doing multiple tasks at once. We are simply changing the task quickly.

The goal is to be effective not efficient.

It also means that multitasking can affect not only our ability to focus but its quality as well.

Research has shown that switching tasks isn’t productive.

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The Secret of Mindfulness

Mindfulness is the ability to be simply mindful. It means to grasp the present moments as it is.

Whether that’s in the sounds, our movements, breath or even slight adjustments, all of it is considered being mindful since we are truly in the present moment focusing on an aspect of it.

Generally, mindfulness is associated with meditation but it comes in different forms as well.

It can also be achieved through journaling or even walking. Meditation might be the easiest link to connect for mindfulness for most but that doesn’t mean there are no other ways to enable it.

Staring at the board for an hour is being mindful as well. Simply being self-aware is mindfulness.

That being said, mindfulness is simply observing things as they are without any judgement nor thought. It’s simply reality.

The most useful aspect however, is to ensure that we increase the duration in which we are mindful throughout the day.

These moments help us to snap back to the present moment and observe for what it is.

Engulfing in our thoughts about the past or future meaninglessly without being grateful about the present we have is unfortunate but also common.

Using mindfulness, we let go of such thoughts.

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