In the back seat observing his colleagues, James was in doubt. The questions lingered in his mind throughout the night, made him disgusted at himself. The question which doubted the sanity of so-called human nature. And the question he did not dare to ask the smiling fellow human beings who were sharing seats of the round table with him. Are we not modern monkeys dressed as such for the occasion? He had plenty of doubt. Of course, these doubts did not come from a void, it was backed up by the evidence which accumulated on top of each other in a pile, like on a desk of a lawyer who is preparing himself to defend his client. This time the defendant was the inner monkey of Himself. So, James decided to carefully consider the evidence which obviously was mounting against plaintiff of his saint self. Monkeys He was at the get together, which was not a glamourous, end of year party or a birthday celebration, but a routine, dull get together that occasionally some people like to have under a shady dim light in a secret joint. Everyone was invited, everyone was present, and everyone knew each other well enough. And on top of that, if there had been a flimsy barrier between the sanity and humanity against the inner monkeyness, it was demolished in the first half an hour he was at the table, during the first round of Alcohol. Modern monkeys on a round table. He could see the humans disappear, and inner monkeys start to enjoy themselves. They start to gossip criticize and argue about prime ministers, middle east crisis, work stress, last year parties, women and their short dresses, secret affairs, Drugs, lust and profanity. By the time it was the past midnight, the monkeys would have intercourse on the table itself with imaginary monkeys if it was not a reality. What would have happened if there was a billion dollars backing up intensions of these monkey minds. Would there be any limit, an upper boundary, societal, judicial or otherwise, which cannot be broken in the name of experience. Maybe there was a truth after all that they wear cloths only to pretend that they are some kind of superior beings than regular monkeys. Let's party Yet he had seen them monkeys in the wild. Who wear no cloths, and who do not hide behind rigid walls of ethics, which were broken by alcohol and lust. They had no need to hide their anger against each other. They did not need to hide their affection, or attraction. It is natural, they might fight with themselves till death for the right to mate. Aren't they driven by same underlying forces that moved monkeys to behave in their group. What does these rituals mean when it comes to individual intensions? He could see each and every one playing their own selfish game, hidden behind the safety of social norms. But maybe, James was being harsh on himself. After all, what evil will it be done by a one more profane story? So, finally he decided to open his mouth and join in the conversation after wreaking his train of thoughts. Verdict is Guilty. Tonight He will be a modern monkey. Maybe tomorrow he will wake up a saint again, just in time before the Play begins.

Will was a Krill, in the movie happy feet. One day he decided to swim against its own swarm. The swarm contained a trillion krill, and all their lives krill had been just swimming with the swarm. But Will was different, he decided to see the end of the world by swimming opposite to its own swarm. And after so much swimming one day he was far away from its swarm. And what he saw was an amazing site. That whole swarm was just a gigantic ball of krill, and there was a whale, who was feeding itself from the swarm. The swarm that Will lived was the lunch for the whale. And Will who is a krill with a gigantic will was out of the reach, of the whale and would never be able to unsee the truth that he had seen. Even if he goes back to the swarm and tried to educate the other krill, it wouldn't work. As krill do not have much of a Will to follow their own thinking. Will the krill This may sound very unfamiliar scenario for someone who is novel to the subject of self examination. Yet it is a powerful way to illustrate what happens when we start to think on our own. Just like the Allegory of the Cave Example by Plato, the Will the Krill story shows us that to break the pattern of learned thinking one has to start a journey against the current of the natural flow. The natural flow of the world is to believe in things from the past. We start by learning correct sentences, correct mathematics and correct grammar. But only that when one truly master any of their craft will realise that the "correctness" Is just an assumed value. Arbitrarily given by ancestors, because it helps the longevity of an individual. If not the society. That is the way of the nature. The way of the nature Sometimes the way of the nature is stupid. The nature doesn't know how to overcome the problem of change. Hence it tries to preserve this by proliferation. A heard of buffaloes that walk across a savana are killed by crocodiles when they cross the river. Hunted by prides of lion and chased by hyenas. They die due to lack of food. But the nature overcome the problem by making a remarkable number of calves each year. Born with wobbly legs, in the meadows in monsoon season. Nature solve the problem by proliferation. I am not trying to be harsh on nature. Infact someone would argue that nature is not a thing and has no intention as such. And I would agree there. But by understanding that the stupidity of the nature helps us break the illusion that everything has a meaning. The matrix that we are stuck in is infact harder to break. As all we know, all others value is swimming with them. Like a bunch of krill, straight into the mouth of the whale. However, we are different. We are the mistake of the nature. Nature has given us a Will, that we can execute at our own terms. While all the humans follow other humans by fear, of being left out, some chose to swim In the opposite direction. I would not say thus is not a gamble. That is a risk. Going towards your own roots of existence is a gamble. But if you assume it is more risky than swimming with the swarm, you're wrong. Infact simple probability calculation will show that these two are just two random processes. And either one atleast have an equal chance of being correct. Numbers A krill with a will So, what would you do. I'm sure we all are a little more than Krills without wills who end up swimming inside digestive juices of a whale.

Maisie Brumble is a fictional character, who is the ultimate hero of the movie "The Sea Beast". And this is not the only quote that she happened to utter. She also said the history written in books can be wrong. And for the nature of it large part of historical records are actually wrong. But that is for the discussion on another day. Today, we can see why heroes are not always correct. Why you can be a hero and still be wrong? There is danger in a hero's journey. Every hero runs a course of multitude of calculated risks to win the title of the Hero at the end of the quest. Sometimes they never succeed. And when they do, they will go into the history books as brave people who conquered their fears against beasts. Who are such heroes? There are plenty, there are political leaders. Historical war heroes Like Napolean, Mathematical geniuses who dedicated their whole lives on cracking brain teasing equations that nobody wants to do. And there are local heroes in each and every town. In families, single mom's, elder brothers, head of a pack of wolf. As you can see everyone is a hero if you consider life as a pursuit and you are successful in your mission. But, that little wisdom from the children's movie marvel make me realize there is great danger in this view of life. Heroes What if we become a hero, winning a battle that not ours to fight? What if we chose the wrong game? This is the risk that we run when we chose to play the game of heroes according to society rules. The society is not always correct, in-fact time and time history has proven the society is proven to be wrong many more times than we think. 21st century is better than 20th century in every aspect of the human life. Hence, who were thinking that games of the 20th century were the games that brings meaning to life were wrong as we have defined better meanings to life. They were correct, relative to their own time and space but not anymore. We know historical mistakes of many such heroes. Consider Wehrmacht of Germany. They were considered heroes until they learned that it was a historical mistake of monumental size. So, if you think you have picked up the correct side in battles of 21st century wait until its 22nd century for our children to prove that we were heroic fools. How to overcome the problem? So, if you can be a hero and still be wrong, how can we get over this problem? Nobody wants to become a hero for wrong reasons. I think the solution is provided in the problem itself. You have to have some self-doubt in your course of actions. As you cannot postpone your game until you arrive at the 100% truth in your life. But, if you are willing to accept and keep opportunity to change your course of action every time, you traverse through time. Ultimately you might be able to 99.999% correct in your path. So, doubt your core believes, challenge them every night when you go to bed. What if the things you stand for doesn't exist? What if there is no Arian nation that persist? What if there is nothing called a perfect society? The time you spent on politics would be such a waste of time because of a one lunatic. Same goes to the family you try to save from the doom. Monumental Historical Mistakes. It might seem that you never reach a conclusion when you take this iterative approach to life. But it doesn't matter. Even mathematicians satisfy themselves with approximations. It really doesn't matter the ultimate truth is an empty space. But, knowing this yourself is hard unless we are willing to examine our own minds with rigorousness of a professor of life.

How about middle east crisis affecting you? Middle east is again on fire. More than ever, it has started to overspill into the global economy and even individuals in rural Africa are feeling the heat this time. Rising fuel prices, interrupted international cargo, cancelled commercial flights. Thousands of people stranded in airports. Even if you are living in the opposite corner of the world (If the world had corners in the first place) you will be feeling the pressure and tension of the WW3. Its, only just one lifetime passed since the last world war, and here we go again. Camel Rational person's response. So, what is the solution to the middle east crisis? Yes, I am speaking to you, the random person who is reading this article. The fact that you are reading this article makes me think that you are not a busy, CEO of a company, A leader of middle east country. Or a politician, or an Oil importer. It is likely you are a consumer, just having least amount of power and wealth. It is likely you are just a commoner, who is surviving with little bit of money earned through hard work barely enough to provide food for your loved ones and once a year vacation. Which you will have to postpone this year. So, now we have established the background, I would address to 99.99% of the world population. Think about it for a moment, What is the solution to the middle east Crisis? When I look at responses of my colleagues, general public and everyone who belongs to the 99.99% of the population, I can only laugh with myself. I think about it for a moment, I can see the rockets, launched, ships destroyed, markets collapsing. And I can see I can do nothing about it. I am not the president of the United States, neither of Iran. I am not an owner of an Oil company. I do not have shares. I am not stuck in an airport in the middle east. What good is I talking about it with my friends would do to resolve the issue. I am not even interested in going on a protest Infront of the US or Iran Embassy to stop the killings, even we are thousands of kilometers away from there. In-fact, I feel like it is one way flow. Like I am not the independent variable of this "Middle east crisis" function. My involvement would have no effect on the outcome. Crisis How does this differ from inaction? I do not mean that 0.01% who are directly involved in the ruling of the world, has no connection with the rest of the 99.99% of the population. I am not against action, according to the values and views of a person. If you are an Iranian, I would agree your choice to defend. If you are An Israeli, I would agree your rights for the land. But what I am thinking is me talking about something which is out of my scope of action, is stupid. So, I do not talk about it with my friends. I keep on laughing at the people who panic. They do not even know what their own scope of influence is. We can only change a limited number of variables. It is better to work on my writing while the rest of the world is fighting. As, that would have the ability to influence or make a change. Other than that, I still chose to spend my entire afternoons looking at the brilliant colors made by the sun reflecting on the middle east dust. There is enough stupidity in the world, that it would just do fine, without one stupid person. So, what is the solution to the middle east Crisis? Don't worry about it. And it is true for at least 99.99% of the population.

This is a topic I will revisit often enough so I remind myself how amazingly I can spend my own life If I was just aware of everything it has to offer in a given instant of time. The way we are going to look at it today is through the eyes of an economist at a budget line principle. I will give you a simple example. What is budget line principle? Imagine you have 1000 dollars which you can spend on anything you like. And you only have this amount for a whole month. Although there are thousands of products available, you will only use this on food and clothing and some medicine. As hunger and health are fundamental needs of a man. Now imagine you have 2000-dollar income. Then you might spend more on shelter. And little more on food. Increase your imaginary budget by 1000 dollars and see what happens. As the budget increases so does your needs. And at 5000 dollars per month income, I am sure you will become seriously overweight, unless you have mastered self-control. But unfortunately, we are animals, who have built in systems, that, naturally and automatically we will consume more when there is abundance. Hence, majority of the effluent society will race towards obesity. Piggy bank What is the solution to tackle unlimited abundance? A simple solution would be to reintroduce budget restraints on our spending. The important thing this does to our system of consumption is make us aware of our own spending and use it only on essential items. Because each and every choice we make would make us more restraining on our next choice. This has been used successfully in some of the modern weight reduction apps. Where you are allowed to "spend" imaginary cash on any item of food but within your budget constrain. As an example, if you have a budget of 20 dollars for your day, if you spent 10 on McDonald's you will be left with only 10 for two more meals. This has shown to be more successful than trying to diet on a regular basis (according to the Yale lecturer) This made me to think where else I can use budget constrain principle? What else is limiting in our day to day lives? How about time? You only have 24 hours per day. If you chose to watch films 6 hours straight, you must really value and enjoy doing that. Otherwise, you're going to suffer of the opportunity cost of 4 extra hours wasted of your life. How about viewing your life as 72 days. One day for each year. If you spent one more year doing those stupid Mundane tasks of achieving nothing, that is 71 more days (one less) to spend on other things which are important. Is it really worth to continue what you're doing? How about words you speak? Can we put a budget constrain on our words? Can you survive with speaking 100 words per day? How about 5 words. Just to notice how many unnecessary chits chat you do throughout the day which doesn't improve your or someone else's life? How about number of words, and examples I chose to give you in this article? How about I can use only 1000 words in each of my article, with a 3-minute reading time. So, I am aware of valuable human time spent on these words. Maybe it's just enough to pass my message and I would choose words wisely. Choose your words Wisely So, how else are you going to spend your rest of the day? Provided that you're aware of that the day would end at 12 midnight, maybe you should stop crying over whatever is gone and spend it on your pursuit.

I have great news for you. If you consider yourself, a sad angry or even antisocial, depressed negative person, Or even a cheerful, happy energetic one, it doesn't matter. As all these are temporary states of mind, just like the high and low tides of the sea. However, the good news is the inherent nature of mind is pure peacefulness. Yet, one has to reach this conclusion by themselves by extensive investigation of self. Inherent nature of mind is shining, like a polished diamond. The inherent nature of mind can only be seen when it is content enough and calm enough without external disturbances. As, by definition, mind is a surface which reflects the environment. So, if you live in a chaotic environment, with constant bombardment of unwanted information, the mind cannot calm down and settle itself. You may suspect that the mind is a very bad place, even label yourself, as anxious, angry, destructive human being. However, this is not at all true. Even in these circumstances the mind holds the capability of becoming its true self of being at peace. If you batter a child from the day 1 and deny any love or care, surely that child will grow into a criminal. Or a failure. Just like that if you batter your mind day in and out with stressors and unnecessary cravings, the mind will not show any content, instead it will be distressed all the time. This I think is not a modern-day problem. I am sure, even in the past people had their own problems, it may not have been the rising oil prices due to middle east crisis. Maybe it's just scarlet fever without any cure. Pealing onions How to reach inherent nature of mind? So, pauses are important. I would say very important midst of chaos. As it provides the opportunity for the stressed mind to relax. And reach its own true nature. The good news is that whatever happened prior to that moment in time, that mind choses to be at peace, would have no effect on its current status. Inherently mind, do not want to achieve any target. There is no chase of success. It is inherently content. It is inherently peaceful. Just like the peeling of an onion, will show more and more pure nature of its core. Just like opening of outer petals of a lotus, reveal its brighter and softer and pure inner self, you may find the mind is not the wrong doer. It is just a function which is observing the nature. The interpretation of the observations made by mind is what creates the chaos, unrest and uneasiness. In the heart of practice of mindfulness, we try to understand the core nature of mind. When it is at peace, when it is silent. I would not force oneself into such a state, which otherwise should be natural. Instead, I would plant few good habits. Like being with the nature. Letting silence fill the empty spaces of the day. And by feeding the mind with better information, than Trump News. So, day after day mind would know how to be at peace on its own. How about few breaths? to remind ourselves that we are still living. Polished diamonds

I have been fascinated by math equations for a second time in life. I used to love it as it stretched my brain capacity to the maximum as a teenager. Then the life happened and I had neither time nor the peace to tackle with brain teasing calculus. I never learned the calculus, so as I had a limited free time I thought I would give it a go again. Apart from Robert frost poems, and Ganong physiology I think Stewart's calculus is a best of its craft. Boy, Calculus is hard to self-study. So, I would guess a novel by Shakespear. But, this time around I have a little help called ChatGPT, which gives great explanations which suit my level of understanding. It is perfect getaway when I am stuck, and the other thing came to my mind is MINDFULNESS. calculus I am not going to discuss double integrals or partial derivatives, or any of the math stuff. But obviously I would tell you that calculus is at the heart of the modern understanding of the nature. If you study any subject to a reasonable advanced level, I am sure you will come across some models, and equations of functions, which fundamentally derived and modeled by using calculus. The reason behind this is the calculus is the study of change. If you read my previous article which I wrote about understanding time, in 2023, I wrote about infinite observations of a person can make on a falling leaf, if given enough time to comprehend. What I did not know at that time was calculus. And as calculus puts the framework to understanding such infinite possibilities of the changing world I would say you will come across it whenever there is a change needs to be described. Where do you think these changes occur? In fact, the question we should be asking ourselves is where does not change occur? As I can understand, everything is in motion relative to time, in one way or the other. In massive scale or in tiny fractional scale of particles. So, at the heart of chemistry, social science, engineering, or geography you will find formulas of some derivatives and integrals. But there is one place calculus cannot describe or model. And that is the function of human consciousness. And there is the topic for today's discussion. "CALCULUS OF MIND" Mindfulness - Calculus of mind Mind You cannot understand the mind function by a mathematical formula. As fundamentally you are the formula itself. But we can use principles of calculus to understand this fundamental function of life. The science is tricky here as we are bounded by our subjective understanding. So, we have another method which is called "Mindfulness". Mindfulness is none other than watching the mind function in the infinite timescale to see how the values (and) things change in mind relative to the time. However, just like the models made by mathematical formula is not the reality by itself but just an approximation of it, the conclusions the mind makes about itself by mindfulness process are not correct themselves, or not the reality itself. Maybe we should just call it another "derivative" or "integral". Useful, but limited. My question is, are you willing to make your own formula for the mind function? How is it doing lately? Positive?

I saw this wonderful story about a monk who asked the question in the book about "Paths" by Andras Gulyas. It is open access book about paths in general. As the story is a fascinating one and related to mindfulness, I thought of including it here. It is short however I will tell it in my own words. The origin of the story is in the book Su-La-Se One day a monk came to his teacher and asked. Teacher, I have been a monk for this long years, I have followed the path of ancient monks, to the best of my ability, I have meditated on mountain tops. Survived with one meal per day. I have spoken in soft words, walked in forest paths in silence. But, Who am I? I don't have answer to this. Who am I master? Can you give me an answer? Who am I? The old monk, saw the frustration and eagerness of the young monks' eyes. He was kind, he wanted to help. So, he asked the young monk. Not one but a series of questions. Son, did you wake up before sunrise today? Yes, master I did, I woke up before the sun. Did you groom yourself in cold water, and clean up your cave Yes, I did clean up myself. And cleaned my cave. Did you sweep the forest floor, and water the plants. Yes, I did clean the forest floor, watered the plants. Did you have your breakfast, from the nearby village? Yes, I walked with my bowl and had my breakfast from the village. Did you meditate afterwards, in the peaceful part of the monastery? Yes, I mediated for good half an hour in peace. Did you get confused after doing all that and came rushing to meet me? Yes, master! I did. I was so confused after that I came running to meet you. Did you ask the question "Who am I from Me?" Yes, master! I asked the question, "Who am I?" Can you please tell me who am I? Yes, I can. You are the one who, woke up this morning, before the sun, who groomed yourself in cold water and cleaned up your cave, who, swept the forest floor, watered the plants, who had the breakfast in the nearby village, and who meditated in the peace of the monastery, and who was confused, and asked the question who am I? You are all of that. There is nothing more and nothing less to that. Who is reading? Who am I? An essay type answer. Sometimes obvious answers to our question, is hardest to reach as it is too simple. Having been a student of mindfulness, having observed myself day after day, I would come to the same conclusion as the above young monk. The life, consciousness, or mind seems to be a mechanism which constantly deluding itself by trying to reach a conclusion about life. A definite answer to the question who am I? But it seems, answer to the question Who am I? is not a best response type. Answer to the Question is an essay type answer. Where a single sentence of that essay would not make any meaning, unless it is interpreted in context. Now at this point a real question someone would ask is, how can an essay contain a meaning, which is not there in individual letters by themselves. Isn't it all depending on the interpreter?

What are paths? I am sure you have taken a path, one day as a kid, to become an educated adult. You started on this path of babbling out monosyllables, and now you are reading this article written in sentences. I am sure there was a time that you could not do that. "Learning a language" is just a one path that we take in our lives. But there are numerous examples for paths. Consider following list of items as paths. A hiking trail up a mountain A road trip route from one city to another The trajectory of a thrown ball The orbit of a planet around a star The path of a river flowing to the sea A career progression (student → intern → professional → expert) A learning journey (basic math → algebra → calculus) The path of light through a lens A decision tree in problem-solving The browsing path through folders on a computer A path Anything which includes a movement through a trajectory, can be considered as having a path. In fact, this article seems to have a path of its own. First, I started by explaining a path, then a list of things which can be considered as paths and giving a definition from understanding of the examples. So, you are right at the middle of the way down the line I want you to take, as at the ending of the article I am going to show you what a destination is. Path -> movement What are destinations? Merrium Webster Definition 1 : a place to which one is journeying or to which something is sent when the package has reached its destination kept their destination secret 2 : a place worthy of travel or an extended visit a popular tourist destination —often used before another noun a destination restaurant a destination resort 3 : the purpose for which something is predetermined or destined 4 : an act of appointing, setting aside for a purpose, or predetermining Although above definition of destination came straight out of the Dictionary, I would say it doesn't capture the essentials of a destination. When I think about destinations, I can understand that it is different from paths, by having no paths. All paths can assume lead to destinations; some may point to the eternity. But destinations by definition should not have paths, but only paths leading towards it, or away from it. Destinations are for rest, lack of movement, or stillness. Path -> movement Destination -> stillness Destination - Venice Destination have no paths - What can you do with this knowledge? I would say plenty. Consider a life as a combination of both. When there is less movement, stillness, silence know that you are at a destination and enjoy the silence in mindfulness. On the other hand, when there is lot of movement, know that it is just a path. When you know characteristic of destination, you can even create your own moments of stillness. You do not have to wait until everything falls into the right place to stop the journey. If you are walking in the park, you can just sit on a bench to make it a destination. When there is no movement of the mind the mind itself will become destination. You may stay there as long as you want, as there is no need to take a path unless destination becomes hostile. Which is unlikely to happen in a hurry. When you are on vacation, make sure you bring your mind to the present, and enjoy the destination. Without letting it wonder into the past and future, into unknown paths. Isn't it a wonderful way to look at life?

To illustrate the great quote by Miyamoto Musashi, the Japanese sword warrior, here we give two stories. One from ancient world, one from modern world. As you will see the wisdom provided by this is timeless as illustrated by these examples. Two stories on transcending retardation - Case of Mr. Demis Hassabis A beautiful game of chess In a documentary about DeepMind and AI, Nobel price winner Demis Hassabis, the British mathematician and scientist describes his inspiration for studying AI. Apparently he was an intellectual with a promising career in chess when he was young. And one day he was playing with an opponent in a room filled with hundreds of other players playing in parallel to him. And after a mini battle in his own mind he lost the game, to the other guy, who for a brief moment was able to mock his career as a chess player. In his own words, it had made him feel like what a waste of human consciousness. In an imaginary game of chess. Not only his, but all the other chess geniuses in the same room, battling individually with their thought power to win an artificial mind game with endless possibilities. What If he could somehow connect all these powerful minds so they can work together for a goal. That is a motivation to research on AI. However the fact I would like to point out is that, he did not realise playing chess would be a waste of time until he lost and accepted he sucked at chess, will never reach the top to be the best chess player ever. So, this is a practical example from the modern world which shows, we shouldn't be afraid to embrace our foolishness of understanding so we can be free to chose wisely what actions we should take. In case of Demis, he won the Nobel price in chemistry, 2004 for his works on protein folding problem, using AI. If you do not know structure of a complex protein is all that matters to save millions of lives, as they are building blocks, drivers and motors of human physiology. By embracing his foolishness in chess, Mr. Demis had transcended retardation. Case of the man who walked into the mud. The second example comes from one of my friends. I'm not sure the origin of the story, but can be related to Eastern philosophy. Imagine a man walking into a pit of mud. And as he walks he progressively gets buried in mud, at one point he is almost buried up to his nose. Somehow, at this point he realizes that he is going to get drowned and perish if he continued forward. And he turns back. But that moment, the flash of time he had embraced his retardation, that he had been a fool. Is the moment paradoxically change the trajectory of life towards transcend. Sounds familiar? This is exactly what is mentioned by Socrates In different words. Unexamined life is not worth living. A man who walked into the mud In this sense I would say, human world is a balanced situation. Where we are equally exposed to both good and bad. If we were exposed to either one of these continuously the knowledge will not improve as there is less chance of knowing the other side of the equation. So, when I feel like a fool I would embrace this feeling. And accept so I can start a mini journey to transcend myself to a knower. More you know, more you realize, you don't know - Aristotle

Some truths are really simple. So, that we never meet them in a relaxed mind. Just like in the fish story of famous Wallace speech. Just like a young fish who is not aware of the water which surrounds him all day, we are not aware but act blindly. But there are moments in life, that someone, or something makes us wonder, and we get our Aha moments, and we forget about it when we immerse ourselves with comfortable lies that we chose to believe out of convenience. I had such a thought today, and I just write it down for my own future reference. A simple bed A simple truth. Imagine you are on your last day on earth. Let's forget about the conditions and factors that lead you there on your days of doom. Let's forget that you are in pain, or any other physical disability. And let's hope that you are in good mental health, when this happens, good 80 years spent on earth, perfectly as you wished you spent. I am just introducing some controlled variables to this hypothetical scenario so, my mind cannot ask stupid questions and deviate from what matters. You for a fact knows, that you are going to die tomorrow. Peacefully and quietly, you are going to go. And you ask yourself, what does it matter what I have done in my life? (All those 80 years of ambitions, achievements, failures, goods and bads) My logical mind, have a clear answer on this. The answer is it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter you are a lawyer, a good doctor, a cunning doctor, or a pig farmer. In that moment on that hour of your last breath on earth, it doesn't matter how many children you are having. It doesn't matter how many vacations you have been on, or how many novels you have written, how many Instagram followers you have. The lies of the society disappear at the dusk, when the reality hits the individual. Individual alone would face this battle against the silent killer of time. A second simple truth. Values are creations of Human beings. We can derive a second simple truth from the above. Like a mathematician would give a second order derivative of a function. If the things do not matter at the end of the life on the day it all ends, what is the true value of things now? How come they are valuable today, but not at the end. If something has an intrinsic value, should it not survive the death of the individual? However logical reasoning lets me understand that enormous pile of emeralds doesn't matter the day I die. So, how come it is valuable today. Either I am lying to myself in believing that everything has a value, or everything doesn't have a value, but my mind just tricks me till I die and still not realize that as a fact. I'm not trying to make you afraid, saying that everything is valueless. But playing with this idea would only make you stronger, as every human with a significant brain capacity that ever lived somehow knew this either by experience, or by intelligent investigation of themselves. I suggest you do the same without postponing this experiment to do on your deathbed.

George Box George E. P. Box (1919–2013) was a famous British statistician who made major contributions to statistics, quality control, and experimental design. He is known for above quote which caught my attention as it harbours some truth which I cannot deny. All models are wrong (forged), but some are useful. Consider the wording, in the quote. It claims that "All" models are wrong. Forget the usefulness of some models, which are wrong. I would rarther ask the question what is a model. A model by definition is just an interpretation of some process or some natural phenomena. Consider a model of the water cycle. Simply we can teach a five year old kid about how the water gets vaporised from the surface of the sea, and form clouds, to rain down on earth, and flow back to the sea. This is accurate model to explain some phenomena. But this doesn't account for glaciers. The water evaporate from trees and exhaled air. Not even water boiled in the kettle this morning, when you made a cup of coffee. Truth is we cannot ever make a complete model of the water cycle. That would need to track every water molecule that ever exist in this instance of time. Including the ones freshly arriving to the earth's atmosphere in commets. Only the real water cycle itself would mount to such a model. Then we can just call it a reality, not a model. But we don't have do that. We don't need to make perfect model which describe every variable. We can create a wrong model of the water cycle and still use this to explain some phenomena. Draw it on a board and be amazed ourselves. Water as a model Let's get back to the quote. Mind you, this is said by a statistician. If you do not know they tend to be good and obsessed with numbers, which are considered accurate. The models they make help us to determine amount of active compound which an 80 kg man with a stomach cancer needs, in his chemotherapy regimen. Which can mean the life and death if not done correctly. Similarly models are the first to be built upon, before any skyscraper reach its future glory in any modern city. If someone told me that these complex models are wrong, and by all means if that is an statistician, I would consider him insane. How can that be possible. After all I have never heard failure of any skyscraper. (Chemotherapy, a different story) Why all models are wrong? Truth is only the skyscraper itself knows how it's going to respond to the enviornment over time. It is true non of them have ended catastrophically. Thanks to modern mathematical and architectural models are being accurate enough, to persist during short span of human life. Skyscraper Model Here we can take a rest and ask, what else is a model in your understanding about life. How about your finance? A tree is a model. A family is a model. Society is a model. A country is a model. Philosophy mathematics, language and science itself are models. How about weired things that we cannot see or touch. How about dreams, soul, religion? If every model is wrong then all of the above models harbour some error in them. It is not obvious to someone who is blinded by their own believes. But if we look at ourselves throughout the life, we can see our models change over time when we gather more knowledge. Yet we can never reach a fundamental truth in any of the models. It is like riding an asymptote towards the eternity. Never reaching there. Understanding above quote does two things to oneself. First is it let's identify the idiot within ourselves who wants to believe in a perfect model, and even such exists. Second is it let's you identify other idiots who are fooled by their own models of the world as they haven't even considered that there can be a flaw in their model. And its better to keep the mouth shut, in such arenas of egos.