Will greater chaos lead to a stable equilibrium?
When things go wrong they have a habit of going haywire. Or maybe across the multi faceted chaos in ones life, there is one binding force, one unifying idea, one philosophy, one person that keeps things together. When that idea loses its meaning, the person seizes to exist, the unifying cement is gone. Total chaos ensues. Seemingly settled demons start showing their head.
The little science that I have studied tells me that chaos is natural, a necessary pre-cursor for any equilibrium. The greater the chaos, the more stable equilibrium it will lead to (whenever that happens). It just dawned on me that the same principle works in life too. The more distressed you are, the more focused you probably will be when you have weathered the storm. And chaos itself holds great energy. The urge to reach equilibrium is so strong, if only somehow one can manage to channel that energy into any direction, a lot can be achieved. Trouble is to determine what you really want. Trouble is to determine what you ultimately want out of life (apart from transitory successes). The moment you are sure what you want, it will result in the channeling of that enormous energy towards the desired goal and this release will result in peace. Like all hypothesis, empirical evidence will come in a while, when I have experienced the release myself. Though beyond personal life, history of nations hold ample examples. the longer and deadlier a conflict, the more lasting the peace that ensues, whether it be the 30 year old European war or world war II. But I guess any student of history will rip the use of this evidence apart, citing a million other more relevant causes. Guess we will wait for empirical confirmation to see if it works in human life:)
posted by Noorali Surani at 11:09 AM
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An idea a recently came across in a strategy course i am taking metioned that one usually keeps pace with the enviornment making incremental changes in one self to come to terms with that enviornment - one which in this age is constantly chaning, putting demands on the individual to change.
A point may come where that individual comes into a state of flux and is 'thinking' while the enviornment moves ahead leaving the person far behind.
When the person eventually does infact comes up with the right strategy for the 'moment' there is at the same time a transformational change within him, one that brings him back at pace wiht the 'changed' enviornment.
Everybody that puts him self in a competitive enviornment goes through this, one who is most successful has the most 'agile' mind and can and should encash this ability.
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