VIRB

Today I heard somebody say, “Where am I?” I thought to myself, “You are right where you are.” You are always right where you are. You are always right here and now. Then I pondered my use of the word “always.” “Always“ is a word that shouldn’t be used lightly. It’s an endless word like “never.” I started working it out in my head, Are we really ALWAYS right where we are? What about when we die, when we are buried below the ground, or have been turned to dust and thrown in the ocean. In death, since there is no conscious to think or say, “I am here”, are we sincerely no longer here? Which naturally raises the next question.

Who is “I”? When we speak of ourselves, when we say, “I…” is this “I” - us physically, or is “I” simply our conscious, or maybe something more? I’m sure this is an age old question, but I feel it is important to understand, to come one step closer to living aware and in the light of truth. If “I” or our “self” is just our “conscious awareness,” then when we die, I would assume that “I” would cease to be, thereby forcing me to remove the “always” from my previous statement. The reason I would have to “assume” that “I” would cease to be in death and not know it as a fact is because I have never died. I do not know what death consists of other then our physical parts cease to function and our bodies rapidly descend into decay.

If “I” is more then just our conscious, say for example it consist of our physical form, and even maybe a spirit (though I have yet to uncover proof of spirit existence) then perhaps the above statement has a chance of holding true even with the “always, but It may be unlikely. The only thing I have found consistent in the world, that would constitute using the word “always” is “change.” Change is always occurring.

Even as I write this, I keep using the word “I” to reflect “me.” But what really is “I” or “me. Further thought might conclude that “I” is a reflection or the resulting reaction of everything that “I” has come in contact with, thus making “I” a part of everything. So even if my body and my conscious die, The “I” still lives on in everything else. How is this possible you ask? In this scenario, “I” is not only a reflection or the resulting reaction of everything, but also a contributor to everything. Everything “I” comes in contact with is effected from that moment on. This motion is happening every moment, a continuous chain reaction linking us all together as one.

The conclusion, there is only one “I.” We are all “I.”

Think of it like this, each of us resembles one word, and these words create one diary, a diary that is continuously being written. If someone outside of this chain were to read this diary and every word in it. As they pass through each word, those individual words may die, but their meaning and contribution to the diary still lives on.