Foundations and Our Past

In life we go through a multitude of emotions, always trying to perfect our brains into the exact situation in which we are placed. A commonly expressed emotional state is curiousness that can complicate things however it does lead us further into the question of what life is. Teilhard states,  “the object of our inquiry is illuminated by the face it turns towards the summits of life” (page 43). Perhaps this is the reason on why we choose to befriend the people we do as we see an almost reflection of who we wish to be within them. 

They reflect who we wish to be and the reason we are so curious and remain friends with them is because we continue to want to know more about the way they are, there is an air of mystery as to what we don’t know. Therefore perhaps we search for others first of all so we don’t feel completely alone but also because we know that we will never fully understand them.  However, when we feel we know someone too well, perhaps we shy away.

            In a sense that is also how we are with our parents, our rebellious stage revolving in the fact that we know too much, we’ve grown up with them our whole lives so we don’t want them to try understand us, “ we are too accustomed or resigned to thinking of the cell without antecedents” (page 43). But, with our parents we don’t want to really know their stories as we circle our lives around ourselves, not choosing to delve in deeper understand of them. So our parents in a way are like the cell as we choose to not think about their pasts and become so accustomed to doing so that we forget that we are their creation.

            However, if we choose to forget about our pasts, then there is no way we can progress into our future. So, the friendships we build and the curiousness we experience is totally invalid if there is no foundation , (meaning our parents pasts and knowing our actual origin) to build off from.