You Can Be Weird or Do Whatever You Want

(As long as we walk our own path, we're allowed to be as weird as we want.)

Let me explain why I'm saying this.

So, as I understand it, being an ordinary, average, not-bad, decent person who doesn't harm others doesn't actually require much from us. There are mainly two categories: the things we're obligated to do, and the things that simply aren't allowed. It's enough to just put these things in their proper place.

If we picture this on a number line, we shouldn't drift toward the negative side of zero: lying, indecency, cowardice, deceit, and things like that.

On the positive side, there are things that need to be fulfilled, even if just at a minimum: self-discipline, cleanliness, eating properly, choosing your own path (religion or another direction), and living in line with that choice.

So we've understood the line. Staying on that positive side isn't, I think, impossible.

Now here's the interesting part: our world is actually 3D — it isn't made up of just a single line. It's made up of such wonders that..... (if I may say so, according to legend, at some point earth and paradise were once one.)

If we limit ourselves to only "not allowed" and "obligatory," we truly end up living on a 2D line. (Honestly, that scares me.) Because there are things bigger, more interesting, more alive than that: knowledge (for example, methane clathrates under the ocean), processes (something as simple as an action potential), discoveries (from prehistoric times all the way to now, phew), building yourself into whoever you want to be…

And well, if we want to, we can step outside that single dimension too. Even if you're on the line right now, you can add a "y" axis whenever you want and change your life: turn it into a wave, or into an entirely different shape — that's up to you, your actions, and your decisions.

I've also noticed something: some people pass through life without ever fully learning even that simple line… (and that scares me too — belonging to a species and dying without ever understanding your own species). I don't want that for myself.

So I think it's worth thoroughly learning both the "not allowed" and the "obligatory" (I don't know how successful my efforts actually are, but I'm trying to do something about it). Having grown up in an Uzbek family, I already know the "not allowed" side quite well — what I need to learn more of is the "obligatory" side.

And honestly, I still don't know how I'm going to build the whole 3D structure of my life. But I hope most of it will be built on one thing — knowledge.