As we grow in age, life often feels burdensome. Suddenly we’re in teens and there’s peer pressure and social pressure. It continues to grow as we age. Marriage, family life adds on to it for most of us. But why does it happen? If at all, our intelligence grows right? We should be able to handle things smoother with age. We generally start understanding more things than normal. But then, the struggle never eases.
This is where the importance of awareness comes into picture. As the brain starts computing out more and more complex outcomes, we often take them as the only reality and our only understanding of reality. We tend to ignore the concept of awareness because it is too simple for our brain. It almost always doesn’t have to compute out anything. Infact, it’s the opposite. We often have to reduce the computation and reject the result that comes out of it.
As a child, we tend to be in more of an observational condition than when we grow up. Put it simply, we’re more in the moment as a child. Intelligence is good as long as we are aware of the whole thing, our unity with everything. But, it creates pressure, complication if we take it as the only source of our reality.
We must be able to reject more or atleast as much as we embrace information that surrounds us. We tend to look for information to ease our burden only to find ourself in another soup. It never ends before it exhausts us and makes us reject life as a whole as we become old. Rejecting much of the information will make us more observant and less computational, as a result, make us more aware of the whole and ease the burden.