IF LIFE WAS A PLAY, WOULD IT BE A TRAGEDY OR A COMEDY? BILL WATTERSON ASKED THIS QUESTION IN CALVIN AND HOBBES, ARGUABLY ONE OF THE BEST COMIC STRIPS TO EVER EXIST. I THINK THAT IT REALLY DEPENDS ONLY ON WHAT YOU FOCUS ON. IF YOU FOCUS ON THE CONTRADICTIONS THAT APPEAR EVERYWHERE WHEN YOU COMPARE DISTANT THINGS, IT’S A COMEDY. IF YOU FOCUS ON THE INDIVIDUAL EVENTS, IT’S A TRAGEDY. I THEN THOUGHT ‘WHAT IF YOU WERE TO FOCUS ON EVERYTHING THEN?’. I REALIZED THEN THAT THE HUMAN MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN LIFE. IF ONE WERE TO KNOW EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED, ONE’S MIND WOULD SIMPLY CEASE TO WORK. IT IS A BIT COMPARABLE TO THE NATURE OF GOD; THREE, YET ONE. OMNIPOTENT, YET FOCUSED. ALL-KNOWING, YET MERCIFUL. THESE THINGS MAY BE COMPLETELY INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO OUR TINY HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESSES, BUT THEY STILL EXIST AND ARE STILL TRUE. THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT LIFE IN GENERAL WHEN VIEWED THROUGH THE LENS OF A PLAY; A TRAGEDY SOMETIMES, AND A COMEDY OTHERS. A WELL-STAGED PERFORMANCE SOMETIMES, A CHAOTIC BARELY-RUNNING STRING OF EVENTS OTHERS. A UTOPIA ONE TIME AND PLACE, AND A DYSTOPIA ANOTHER. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COMPREHEND THE NATURE OF GOD, AND IT IS ALSO IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL WHETHER LIFE IS A COMEDY OR A TRAGEDY. Shower thoughts in image desc.
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