One Antidote To Numbness

Written Date: Tuesday, December 18^th, 2018

Written By: Orion A. Webster

I’ve been thinking for some time about transitioning from an age of information to an age of wisdom. It seems that when an abundance of information was created people assumed that the natural progression would be to seek out knowledge by default, but it seems that being over-encumbered with inputs has had the opposite effect. Just having availability of information, even very high quality information, isn’t enough; you need meaning to tie everything together.

It doesn’t really matter if you could become a math wiz, a master programmer or a theoretical lasagna physicist if you have no sense of fulfillment, peace and happiness. I think that unlike other points of focus meaning is permanent because it is necessary for anything to have value.

Being that one of the topics that I discuss on this blog is lifestyle design, it is important to point out that it matters very little if you are living what looks like the, “good life”, if you are still experiencing fulfillment scarcity. I propose that the most important thing is not to focus on how much money you make or how good looking something or someone is, and rather always inspect whether or not you are happy, embracing the truth and enabling yourself and others to truly flourish on as many dimensions as possible.

Even though I’m not sure how exactly to define meaning as it seems to be highly abstract and different based on the individual, one can still choose to pay close attention to whether or not you feel joy or sadness, alive or numb, excited or afraid and evaluate whether you are moving away from or towards real flourishing, especially in a mental-emotional sense.

I often talk about life extension and immortality for reasons somewhat out of the scope of this post, but the point stands that it does not matter how long the life if the quality is poor, and it also doesn’t matter if something is ephemeral if it is of maximum impact.

I hope you find some value in these ramblings and I wish you to be well, now and in the future.