When you feel the life in something, don’t overthink it. Grow it!
Sometimes we can experience something beautiful and inspiring, and then we overthink it and try to explain it. By doing so, we easily become cynic.
I believe there is something wrong with that, even if I also believe that trying to explain things is not a bad thing.
It’s easy to find an excuse to desacralize things. Actually, it’s so easy that you certainly shouldn’t be proud of generating it with your mind.
For example, using our logic we can always find a reason that demystifies any act of love and generosity. If you study Freud, you can also see how easy it is to desacralize anything about your human life.
It is also what happens with any miracle: “Oh there is a miracle!” and then “it’s not so incredible because this and that, and actually it could be just because of this and that…”
You can even be cynic about God. For example, some people might say: “God thinks he’s kind and generous, but he’s definitely not kind and generous with demons”; or similarly “I really need to kill people; if you don’t agree with that, then it means that you don’t care about me, and that you are ‘killer-phobic’ and intolerant”.
By playing on words, you can also accuse Life itself from causing violence, suffering, wars, division and death. But you don’t even know what Life is. What if it was just because of cynic anti-life people that there are all those bad things? You can’t even be sure!
Logic is so fragile and treacherous because it can never be a guarantee of truth. In fact, you just need one missing piece, one missing information, and all your great logic reasonning can go to the trash. For example, if your eyes are blurry (missing information from your vision), you could think that a chair and a dog are the same thing because they have both four legs. You could be really convinced about that if you didn’t know anything else about chairs and dogs!
If you find a reason for something, that reason may even be true in a certain general way. So, of course, any reasoning doesn’t deserve to be completely ignored.
However, if you feel less alive when thinking about it, it means you are missing something. It means that you should grow and be more caring about something (or part of yourself).
The fact that a reason can become an excuse for cynicism shouldn’t justify the existence of cynicism.
There are always different ways and different levels of comprehension of reality. And they are all perfectly logic. So, among all these different ways and levels, why do we need to think that the most pessimistic and “dead” one is the truest?
That tendency doesn’t make sense, except when we understand that we are so easily subjected to our primal emotions and our limited vitality. It’s like entropy: it is just so easy to destroy and disassemble things. We should be aware of that inertia in order to become “cynic about cynicism”.
When we realize that, cynicism doesn’t become the realm of great thinkers and philosophers anymore. Not even the realm of cool guys smoking cigarettes in the dark corner of a room, “meditating” between two adventures. No. Cynicism becomes just the realm of dead people who don’t even find the strength to look down on their cynicism.
No matter how unfair you think life is, life will always go on with you or without you. So, now there is only one question remaining: do you want to be part of Life or do you want to just waste your time grumbling in a corner?
