S-S 3: Life's like that!

It's been a long hiatus. Where have I been and what have I been up to? If ever there was someone who could answer these questions, it would only be me and fortunately for me I don't have any answers to bore myself to death with another of my own stupid "been there done that" explanations. So what is on this time from S-S?

It has already been a long journey and the silence of the night is shattered!

Sishya: O Wise one. Much as you may say that your silence means lot more than your words, I already find life to be an incomprehensible puzzle; burden me not with silence as a response! Make me understand life..

SP: It is not what Sigmund Freud sees as “Quest for Pleasure”, not what Alfred Adler calls “Quest for Power”, not what Viktor Frankl calls "Search for meaning" that makes life. I do not call these wrong. All I say is these are effects of a much more basic thing! Life is a “Call to action”. Why do I say so?
Action is the atomic unit of transaction for life! Each instant in life is a “call to action”. It is this action that results in you being happy, sad, in love, in despair, powerful, trampled, alive and dead!!

O Sishya..simple as it may seem..the term action here signifies not just action.it includes inaction as well. Your next question would obviously be: How would inaction be a call to action??..Here you go: It is your action that decides inaction to be the course of action. So that is still action!

What Freud and Adler see are much more abstract, at a higher level and most importantly, don’t capture the dynamism that life is! The definition of life as a “Call to action” is much more an inside-out perspective of life, an emergent view of the phenomenon that life is, able to accommodate the evolving nature of life!

Each instant of life presents an opportunity to act! Act and grow or stay and decay!

Sishya:Well..you only managed to confuse the confounded!I quit.Would you care to make this conversation ligher?

SP:Well..if it were so easy to explain I would’ve! But see if this helps..I attempt to provide an explanation of life in terms of Options. If you ask me “Of all the financial products, why options?!”..here is my answer..
• Volatility is what makes both valuable
• Both have a limited downside and unlimited upside and is near impossible to predict with certainty their occurrences

So..”Life is a long call on yourself with a strike price of Nirvana and a short time to maturity. The contract is to be rolled over every instant. The downside is limited to your life and upside is potentially all the world that you can think of!! Hit the strike and your option becomes all the more valuable. On the other hand, each low instant would take you closer to the downside and would make you close your call!”

Did that help?!

Sishya: Yea certainly. But not to the question I had. Now I understand why silence is much more valuable! I would have been much more comfortable and happy with my mouth shut instead of having posed this question to you and suffer this!!

SP: Hahaha

The odyssey is still on...