You lack ubiquity. Sorry, someone had to tell you. I hope I didn’t upset you by the remark, but you’ve been running around fretting over all your responsibilities and your current unsatisfactory state. “I can’t be everywhere at once,” you complain. “How am I supposed to do everything everyone demands of me? Where can I find some peace and comfort?”
Early in life you quickly learn you have limitations on your presence. If you were ubiquitous, then you would know what was going on everywhere, and there would be no gaps in your knowledge. You could find everything because everything would be where you are. That might be a little boring because your life would be completely balanced as you simultaneously experience joy and sadness.
In a place of turmoil? Well, as a ubiquitous being, you would simultaneously be in a place of peace. In desperation? Then also in satisfaction. In a place of loss? Then also in a place of discovery. In sadness? Then also in a place of joy. Sound good to you?
You’re not ubiquitous. There will be hard-to-find places. You will find yourself in a place of turmoil without simultaneously being in a place of peace. You will find yourself in different degrees of desperation without being in different degrees of satisfaction. You will be somewhere, and the place you wish for will be elsewhere. Resign yourself to the localism that determines your limitations. You can’t get by that existential fact, but you don’t have to see your localism as a limitation.
The limitations to your presence in places that are disheartening do not restrict your searching for those that are heartening. You lack ubiquity. That’s true. You do not lack mobility; your present locale is only one of an indefinite number of locales. You can, through effort, change places as you look for some degree of change. Some places are hard to find, but that doesn’t mean they are impossible to find. Your destiny as a non-ubiquitous being is to keep looking. No place that you find will be the ultimate place, just as no emotional state has to be your ultimate state. Somewhere out there is a place you wish to find or a new place to discover. You won’t know unless you keep looking.
Early in life you quickly learn you have limitations on your presence. If you were ubiquitous, then you would know what was going on everywhere, and there would be no gaps in your knowledge. You could find everything because everything would be where you are. That might be a little boring because your life would be completely balanced as you simultaneously experience joy and sadness.
In a place of turmoil? Well, as a ubiquitous being, you would simultaneously be in a place of peace. In desperation? Then also in satisfaction. In a place of loss? Then also in a place of discovery. In sadness? Then also in a place of joy. Sound good to you?
You’re not ubiquitous. There will be hard-to-find places. You will find yourself in a place of turmoil without simultaneously being in a place of peace. You will find yourself in different degrees of desperation without being in different degrees of satisfaction. You will be somewhere, and the place you wish for will be elsewhere. Resign yourself to the localism that determines your limitations. You can’t get by that existential fact, but you don’t have to see your localism as a limitation.
The limitations to your presence in places that are disheartening do not restrict your searching for those that are heartening. You lack ubiquity. That’s true. You do not lack mobility; your present locale is only one of an indefinite number of locales. You can, through effort, change places as you look for some degree of change. Some places are hard to find, but that doesn’t mean they are impossible to find. Your destiny as a non-ubiquitous being is to keep looking. No place that you find will be the ultimate place, just as no emotional state has to be your ultimate state. Somewhere out there is a place you wish to find or a new place to discover. You won’t know unless you keep looking.
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