ayas uni essay #2

 Do I exist? Does anything around me exist? 

These are the question that have been challenging me for most of my life, placing religion and beliefs aside, what defines existence? My father has been challenging my three sisters and I ever since I can remember about all the “rules of life”. This concept is somewhat taboo in Jordan because it has been embedded in our minds that god is the question and the answer.

 

 Whenever I sit and think about this concept, I come up with a new answer to keep myself sane and as an attempt to relax my sub-conscious in the process.  I can recall a plethora of situations in my developing years of my dad and I discussing controversial topics like this, some include “the afterlife”, the relationship of gravity with time and the concept of what is right and what is wrong? It’s in our human nature to question everything around us, curiosity is almost automatic in every person. We human beings search for answers in everything and try to justify every aspect in our lives and find a “reasonable” explanation. 

 

So, what is existence, what are the factors that should be considered when deciding whether something ‘exists’ or not. For example, a simple glass of water, how do I know it exists? Some may argue that you can see it and you can touch it, however, these factors don’t apply to all things that are said to exist. For example, emotions, they ‘exist’ but we as humans can’t use our five senses to prove their existence. We can’t touch emotions nor can we see them but we know our feelings of love or loss are ‘real’. This is how I like to spend my time and the truth is there’s no one right answer because no one knows, we can’t know, why?

 

Because we as human beings have limited capabilities to understand the world around us, another example is trying to explain color to a person that has been blind since birth, it is impossible because he does not have the senses to comprehend the concept of color itself. We think we can comprehend the world around us as if it’s as simple as that, but we don’t have the senses to grasp what ‘exists’ and what does not ‘exist’, if at any point you thought of science as a counter argument to this topic, it should be collectively understood that science was founded by human beings, the same human beings that only have five senses to understand the world.