"Invisible threads are the strongest ties." -Friedrich Nietzsche
One time I read this creepypasta story. It was about this girl who woke up to one day to find that everything in her life was connected by strings. Small, little, tiny, translucent strings binding everything from her cat to the books in her room to her friends. Everyone was completely oblivious to her existence, ignoring her until she pulled the strings away from their body. Then they woke up from a stupor, confused and disoriented. She soon discovered that the world, and therefore her life had always been controlled by an unknown being. Her thoughts were not hers. Her actions were of another's. Her life had been one carefully constructed lie, a game for someone else to play. While she had been attached by those strings, she was a pawn to whatever was controlling her.
Sometimes I feel like that story is true. Like I have no control over my life and all of this is some bigger picture. And that's scary. To think that I'm being controlled with no choice but to do as instructed, never having free will, is absolutely terrifying. There's so much proof to back the concept up, too. Coincidences. Miracles births. Natural disasters. Love at first sight. All of those unexplainable moments that add up to one big question mark hanging ominously over your head at night. Death. Happening for no known reason, yet not one person truly and completely questions it. We all just accept it and go along with those bonds by routine. It's like when you were little and you still believed in the tooth fairy. You would wonder, why is no one intrigued by this idea? A fairy? That sneaks into my room and steals my tooth and then gives me money? How come mom doesn't think that's weird?
Sure, there's those people that devote their whole lives to finding what the purpose of dreams are, or if love is an actual concept. But doesn't it seem like we should be getting some answers by now? Doesn't it seem as though they are trying just enough to be able to say they did? So they could just give up, and stop looking? Like they don't want to know the answers? Like they are scared to find them out?
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ReplyDeleteThe first part sounded like some kind of variation of the String Theory, that the entire universe is made out of invisible "strings," like the lines in geometry. They are there, but we cannot see them because they have no width.
ReplyDeleteI believe people have control of their individual actions, but not things like who they fall in love with or when they are born.
In my opinion, people who spend their whole lives trying to understand do so because they cannot even begin to grasp these ideas. They are so confused, and that confusion makes them intrigued. People who focus on these concepts that much often do not have something to believe in. I have my own understanding of them, but that is because I am already certain in my beliefs.