It’s not easy to live in a space that is “spacey.” The feeling of being “in” a place is so intense. However, you don’t have to live in your space to love it. We live in a world that allows us to wander anyplace on any day.
The way that space travel works is that you are a visitor to another planet. In every other way you are just another human being. Once you cross the barrier of space, you are essentially a guest in your own home. In reality, you’re just another one of the millions of people who are here on Earth, but in space you are the one who decides what you do when you leave. The only difference is that you’re not going to be returning to your home planet any time soon.
To travel to another world is to put yourself in a state where you are free to do anything you want. You can do anything you want to do, so you might as well make some noise. In real life, humans do more than just wander around. We’re not just wandering around mindlessly, we’re also doing something with our lives. We live our lives, and we make our own decisions about what happens next.
As humans, we want to make our lives as eventful and exciting as possible, but there are limits. There is a point where we feel that we have to make a decision, and we want to know that we’re not going to be stuck in a time loop. We want to make our own decisions about what happens next, rather than just waiting with our thumbs on the tippy-top while some faceless entity tells us what to do.
It’s probably good to know that our bodies are like a snakes, and that we want to stay on that side. But it’s also good to know that we can take action, and that we don’t have to wait for a decision to happen. We can take our own decisions, and just not be controlled by others.
I think we’re all ready to start breaking free from the tyranny of being on autopilot. But how do we know when the time is right to get started? For some this question will probably seem like a difficult one. One way to find a time when your time is right to start is to watch for the signs of a self-directed mind.
This is what we think you’re probably thinking about. When you read the first sentence of The End of the World, you will probably be thinking, “Wow, that sounds very dramatic!” I get that. But I think you’re missing the point. We want to get out of the time loop. We want to be fully in control of our own lives. When we let other people direct our actions, we are often not in control of ourselves.
What are we in control of? We have no idea. But we can make decisions, we choose to look at the future, and we have the choice to do anything we feel like doing. As long as we’re not doing anything we feel bad about doing, then all is well. This is especially true now because we aren’t in control of a time loop. We are part of it, but we are not the whole.
For now, the only way we can control that time loop is to choose to do anything we feel like doing. If we dont, then we are not in control.
But if we did feel bad about something, we could look back and see that we changed our mind before we knew we had changed it.