Princess

Sometimes the world leads us to ask many questions about ourselves. What is life, what are we, why are we here? All these questions that will never find any answer but that will keep us wondering until the end. There are no answers, but humans created things for those who absolutely need them : Religion, and Science.


 

Both are the same. They hold the promise of answering questions that have no answers. In that way, science is, for a lot of people and even without their own noticing, a kind of modern religion. Like religion, people nowadays follow it blindly, without any questions, ready to believe whatever it says. And if you say something that goes against science, you are mad. Like in those days when the inquisition would take care of those who spoke against religion, today asylums take care of those who speak against science.

This introduction had in no point the purpose of defending religion, as I am certainly not a religious person, and I do believe in science. Though it cannot explain everything, and religion explains nothing. Nothing about those questions anyway, though it can teach us a lot in the domains of history, anthropology, sociology and philosophy. Neither of science or religion should be followed blindly. 

The point is, the only person you can believe in in this world is yourself, and your own experiences of life. The world we see is just a vision and never anything seen from it can be taken as absolute truth. Neither the science or the religion, or whatever holds the same purpose. Deceivers are anywhere, everywhere and nothing must be taken for granted. Faith, in anything as it is, has always been, is, and always will be an illusion. 

There is but one truth and it is the truth of your own individual mind. Now knowing this it pushes us as a human being to ask ourselves what is real and what is not. Some people have completely lost their sanity, and some think they are sane but they are not at all. But who are we to judge if we are sane or not? Who knows a fool's world is not the truth and we all live in an illusive world? 

Some people walk. They walk the world with their eyes wide open. Their eyes are open and they do not see. And some other people sleep. Their eyes are closed, but they see. They see everything. For when your eyes are closed you can see not the world, but you can see within yourself; the only world you can be sure about, the only world you can know really exists and will always exist for yourself. Not the world of science, not the world of religion, the world of you. When your eyes are closed, this is everything you are, everything you will always be. Take a second to think about this, the world may exist, or it may not, and will only exist for you if your eyes see it, if your ears hear it, if your hands touch it. But the world within is there, no matter where or when you are. 

Once there was a princess. She lived all her life locked in her tower. From it she could witness the beauty of the world, herself being one fair maiden. Yet what is the point of being beautiful, or seeing beauty, when you cannot reach for it? The princess was wishing for a prince, one she could see from far away, to come to her and take her beauty, though she had no way of reaching for him. Instead of waiting all her life for an unreachable world which she had only seen through a small window, she decided to create her own. A world within a world; herself. The prince was there and he was waiting for her, no beauty wasted. And she was happy.

The tower might have been a world in itself. And the princess too. Or maybe the princess is the only one to exist, and the world she created is the truth of all truth. What if all we are was the illusion of any fool's delirium? Or what if it was our own? What if you reader are the only person to exist in the universe and this is all in your head. What if you wrote this yourself?

Maybe I am princess. Or maybe you are. Or I might be the prince. Or even the tower. Or maybe there is just no tower. Nor prince. Nor princess. Nor world. Nor blog post, after all. What is true, and what is not?