User:WikiYouSay

A geek by nature, I'm one whose oft been told that I'm too smart for my own good, especially when I was very young. But I've used my intellectual prowess to search for the answers to the big questions in life. At age 11, I became disenchanted with the world after the realization that humanity was devoting astronomical amounts of time, effort, and resources, to look for the "answers-to-life" billions of light-years away through the Hubble Telescope (macro), and in electron microscopes (micro), and yet we haven't even learned to get along with each other. I mean, WTF!? If we're looking for the answers to (and meaning of) life, don't you think we should start by learning how to live with one another?

I thought life to be the sickest joke of all time; everyone you love will die, and life is so fragile that your loved ones could be gone in the blink of an eye. But at age 19, I had a spiritual epiphany that vaulted my consciousness new new heights. I realized that time is an illusion, that we are all connected through the universal mind, and that life is fragile and limited in order for us to appreciate the here and now. After all, if everyone lived forever, would we really be compelled to make amends with those we've squabbled? I believe it is our own mortality and the tragedies to which we bare witness that give us the deepest perspective.