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Dear Mina:
I read both recent posts and will be quoting from both.
You wrote: “We are both suffering from our parents and society expectations of us.. Me and Gyunnie, we are being separated by an ocean of expectations”.
You wish you could live in “A world where we can make decisions without thinking about what our parents or family have to say about it. A world where we can be ourselves”-
My input: It is possible for you, Mina, with or without Gyunnie (it is possible for him too) to live in such a world, perhaps a real ocean away, far away from your parents’ and society’s expectations, being your authentic selves without or regardless of societal expectations. It will not make you “losers” but winners.
I understand how unlikely it is for you and for him, separately or together, to take such initiative, all the actions needed to actualize this possibility, but others have done so. It was done. It can be done. It is very difficult, but possible.
Yet so unlikely I am okay with calling it a fantasy.
You wrote about the concepts of a past life, a next life, a God, prayer. You wrote: “I understand that God loves me very much, and He wants the best for me but it is so hard to see His plan”-
I believe there is no past lives or next lives for the individual Mina, for the individual Gyunnie, or for any individual. The brain that is responsible for the individual’s thoughts, feelings, habits, learning, remembering etc., it decomposes at death and so the individual ends. (I wonder, what is the point of education, of learning biology, physiology, biochemistry in one does not understand the fact that a brain does decompose at death and the individual ends).
There is probably some sort of energy or energies or a quality unknown to scientists that exists, but not the individual person.
I believe there is no god, no biblical god, that this god is a made up entity, fitting the concept of a good, loving, well meaning, all powerful, all knowing father with an individual life plan for every person born. Clearly there is safety in the concept. And plenty of evidence that there is no such father-in-the-sky.
anita