Symbiosis is extension, unity is life

Food for thought: What makes up the foremost component of a human life in modernity?

Health, wealth, etc… hmm…

Well, the way I see it, the answer is really none other than content.

See, in olden times, the goal of life was naught but survival itself.

In modernity, however, all our basis sustenance has been secured. For the time being at least, we rely on jobs for our livelihood. And outside of that, then comes the question of where to place our attention on.

Think about the human experience.

We have minds. We need somewhere to focus, direct our minds on… Well, unless you can meditate and have your mind go blank for hours on end!

Why, attention. So… where’d we place our attention on if not content?

Wherein we have evolved from pursuing survival to actually living, so us content necessary for us to place our attention on and actually live.

Games, dramas, sports and the like… all these media outlets are precisely that! Content for us to direct our attention to in our fundamentally quite secured lives.

But even so, human beings have limited talents and capabilities. We aren’t capable of being skilled at everything, if not for the fact that we need time to train and get better at those things at the very least!

So here, we have no choice but to rely on what I will hereby dub symbiosis.

Huh? What’s that?

Well, basically it means living through other people.

See, we ourselves do not possess such capabilities. So, all we can do is to figuratively ‘live’ through other people by becoming staunch supporters of them!

Here’s an easy example.

Say you’re a hardcore football fan of say… Liverpool.

In that case, you’d probably follow most of their matches and cheer them on! As you identify with them, you enter a form of symbiosis with them wherein their win is your win too!!! as you are a member of their tribe.

The same goes for singers, actors, athletes, etcetera.

See, if you lack the capabilities to perform such feats yourself yet really admire them, and you want to vest your interest in them and live off of them, what is that honestly if not you, identifying with, uniting with and living through them!

Oh, I love watching ice skating so much. But I can’t ice skate! But there’s that Yuzuru Hanyu guy who’s so great at it! I’ll be his fan and attach my sense of performing feats to him, effectively living through him yahoo!

In extreme scenarios, there are even these sad cases. For example, in this idol anime that was popular some time back, there was this girl who was bedridden through a chronic illness. Anyway she could only watch idols performing on television and live through them…

Well, the good thing was that she was reborn as the idol’s daughter in that anime and actually became an idol herself! But anyway, back to the topic.

So you’re incapable of certain feats because you lack certain skills. Well then, you extend yourself through a symbiotic act of identification and thereby live through someone instead! The power of unity, the o great responsibility but pride of the competent!

Of course, I’m not saying that you shouldn’t live through yourself! Of course, by all means, you really should nurture yourself and excavate your greatest capabilities, letting your potential bloom!

However, just like how parents sometimes live through their children and identify with all their children’s accomplishments when bragging to their friends (lol), there is also great merit in living through someone else because that greatly increases that content present in your life!

Think about it. Person A has a favourite actor and they watch all of that favourite actor’s dramas, effectively living through that person. They really enjoy themselves in the process.

Meanwhile, Person B has no favourite actor and only watches shows that happen to pop up on their radar. They don’t even really remember most actors’ names.

Which one is more enviable? Why, surely Person A! It seems that they somewhat are living a lot more than Person B, if nothing else! That’s because they’re really invested in the activity rather than just having nothing better to do! Like, they truly can enjoy it!

So why not increase the content of your life by becoming a hardcore fan of a couple of people and by extension enjoying their life through them today! Somehow the breadth of your life would have widened and there’s more to be enjoyed in it!

See, contrast that to someone who merely lives for survival and uses their free time laxly simply because they have nothing better to do. Yet they are not so serious and invested about how they use their free time. Nope, it is not meaningful at all, and it’s not something that can spark true joy in ’em …

Of course, that’s not to say you should become super hardcore and spend all your money on fan merchandise! That’s only if you want to, but still it’s all up to you really! After all, life is up to you to make what you want outta it!

Welp, I think I’ve gone on for long enough! First article of the week, done! So, try to enjoy your lives, people! Put some passion into it, yeah!!! For that be life!!!

Daimon out!