Something Eligible

Everything with a form and shape falls into the trinity of creation, sustenance, and dissolution. These three states are inevitable and they materialize in time-space. Each manifestation is a child of its age; it uses the concepts, structures, and ways of the current relative reality. It has a limited existence and relevance as well. Nothing lasts forever in time-space.

It is a poor representation and characterization when something that has no shape or form has to be presented in static and descriptive terms that automatically limit its dynamic nature (i.e., real essence) to abstraction. This relative manifestation is bound to its surroundings and can be interpreted only in its original environment and nature (also in time).

This means that any attempt that tries to capture something beyond time-space limitations is doomed to fail. At best, we are capable of providing approximations that observe only a part of the concept in question—never the entire concept itself.

A metaphor to illustrate the point: filming a live event can only capture a part of the real action, not the smell, atmosphere, and other parts of the live event itself that took place. More importantly, filming cannot reproduce the actual activity—it can only describe and capture a limited part of it (i.e., some of the visual aspects).

The relevance is that we stick to these representations and give them meanings they originally never had. They start to live a life of their own. They do not compare with the actual essence they were used to represent. A replica never becomes better; it does not exceed the original. How about we stop chasing the shadows and focus on the source instead?