Cosmicly Curious and Contented

I'm taking a break from work on a Friday night, to blog. Don't we all love Fridays? Monday is far ahead still and all the cares of work can be put aside for the meantime. Everyone is in such a buoyant mood on Friday. What a contrast with the anxiety and glumness of a Monday morning!

That's the weekly cycle of life, which all working people are accustomed to. There's a certain value in having such a rhythm in one's life. The body knows what to expect and everything else is synchronised with it. I've written about the subject of rhythms previously on this blog. In The Natural Rhythm of Human Affairs,  I surmised that everything has a natural frequency, even human affairs.  When you can instinctively feel the ebb and flow of human interactions, you'll have a good sense of timing and whatever you do will turn out better. 

In The Rhythm of the Universe, I quoted Sukarno's famous "Living Dangerously" speech where he talked poetically about about the rhythm of revolutions--how they come and go in waves; at times they will subside, but cease they never will. 

Researching Sukarno's life was my favourite pastime then during my time in Indonesia. I even wrote an article for an expatriate magazine about his life in Bandung when he was a student at ITB. What a great time I had then, visiting all the places of his youth when I was researching for the article!

Even though my enthusiasm about things Indonesian has subsided over the last 2 decades, my core philosophy in life has remained the same. Reading these old blog articles of mine make me realise that my basic beliefs have not changed very much. I have a certain instinctive assumptions about the workings of the universe which I take as my axiomatic principles from which I construct my understanding of people and the world around me. 

Every worldly endeavour of mine is an opportunity to test these axiomatic beliefs. Over the years, I've gained new insights and fine-tuned some of them. And that is the joy of living--being able to gain new insights about life and musing about the inner workings of the universe.

I'm just an amateur armchair philosopher, observing the world with curiosity. But that's what gets me up in the morning, eager to tackle another new day. The world is my laboratory. I wouldn't want to change it in any way. Let politicians and other movers and shakers of the world do that. They are born with the drive and ego to create new waves of revolutions. Whether they will make the world better or worse, I do not know. They will be remembered, worshipped or vilified. 

They will leave behind a name and a legacy, while I, will remain a humble observer, cosmicly curious and contented, like, I imagine, the Star Child of 2001: A Space Odyssey.