Ponderings on life

Life. Life is pretty amazing. I mean, the interactions that we have with other people, the friends we make, the enemies that we sadly acquire, the crushes that we chase and those that chase us, business partners, acquaintances, friends for a day, strangers we pass on the street or on a subway car.

The scope of it is incredible. Then tear it down into a nerdy fashion, and we are all just chemicals and electrical impulses. Out of the same materials, we get everything that we know and meet. It is just incredible for me to try to fathom what makes us us. What is it that we like and we dont like? How can an impulse from a nerve cell to a nerve cell make us fall in love or become hate mongers? Think of it. We are all the exact same things. Ya, we may look different, but that is just because things are moved around and deposited differently. But we are all the same. What is it that makes us like certain things and dislike others. I understand we are all taught different things, and maybe that is all it is. But, that just seems so, I don't know, simple to me. Do you like somebody because of what they have been taught? I have friends that we think differently on almost every subject, and yet they are my friend.

Basically I am getting at maybe is, are some people hard wired to be against each other and others for each other? I mean, could there be fates that make us more likely to get along with certain people, and not with others. Does nature predestine this. Does God?

If there is someone that I do not get along with, instead of me judging them, I need to try to be more empathetic. I need to try to take the time to listen and truly understand what they are saying and what they are meaning. I need to try to realize that at the core, we are all the same. And I need to be able to find common grounds through that universal truth.

I know I am going to have many pondering of life throughout this blogging journey. Some will have relevance to something that has happened, others may just be thoughts on a whim. I dont know what will happen when. But my ponderings on life will probably cover any and all subjects. Just little things. Existential thoughts and questions on life.