Life is short.
As I'm about 30 years old now, aging seems faster than I used to feel. Youth has given me a delusion that I'll not get old, but my body is not as strong as before. My parents are getting white hairs, and my grandparents have passed away a few years ago.
I used to be an angry person, unsatisfied about so many things, including myself. But the good side of aging, is that I've learnt to value things I own, including the sorrow and pain. I begin to appreciate the beauty and complexity of China, amazed by how far it has gone through in the past 50 years.
Knowing that in a few decades, I'll die, forever, makes me value this moment and the choices I can make. I can say goodbye to all the fancy things, return to normal life's natural peace, where I can watch flowers shine in the sun, listen to rain drops hitting the tree, or read a book and forget time.
There are five fundamental aspects, as illustrated in the graph above:
- World View
- Life View
- Value System
- Epistemology
- Methodology
What's existence like? How is it structured? Where do we come from and what's the future destiny of us? What are the core values that are most important to human? To what depth can we understand existence? How can we push science far enough to understand how cosmos comes from and how to cure cancer? How to design techniques that can solve challenges in the next 50 years?
There are so many problems and pains to very human living at this moment, but this is also the greatest time in human history, because we stand on the shoulders of all the great minds that have passed away. Sometime in the near future, we'll give everything back to existence, pass our knowledge and stories to the new humans, and may we have love and peace as we do.