Free Your Schroeder's Cat and stop wondering "what if?"

There are several boxes we keep un-opened in our lives. These are things that we want to be true but are afraid to leap into just in case we're proven wrong.

Most of us know in our heart of heart's what it is we want out of life – our dreams and core goals. However most of also distort how clear the path to those goals is. It's easier to put them in a box.

If there's a 'closed box' about something in our lives then that thing becomes 'off limits' to us. Or so it seems.

Or so it seems.

I'm going to make this post a little abstract because sometimes we need to let go of our certainties to get to the core truth of things. That sounds a bit ironic. Doesn't it? Let me have a go at explaining what I mean.

I'm going to allude to something called "Schroeder's Cat" – a philosophical puzzle that states we cannot know something in fact without opening the door and seeing it for ourselves.

Schroeder's Cat is an age-old philosophical puzzle most well defined as:

Schroeder's Cat

If You Take Schroeder's cat and place that cat in a solid box (our senses cannot penetrate this box) – and we ask the question "is the cat alive? Does it exist inside the box?" The answer is: it is neither alive nor is it dead.

In fact the cat does not exist at all – until the box is opened and we can have a human experience of its state. If this is true – what have we misunderstood? The answer is: Because 'alive' and 'exist' are defined as human experiences and these states cannot be separated from the human experience of them.

from inexpressible.com

Most of us have dead cats and living cats in our experience: things we believe won't work out and things we believe are absolute — without an ounce of firshand experience to be sure of either.

Leave Your Illusions at The Door

Stop wondering what's inside the box, and open it.

Some of us spend our entire life on one path with our passion and true dreams in a box we hold on our backs along the road — opening it just as we get to the end.

Sometimes the fear that what's inside the box has real promise is frightening enough to compel us to keep it closed until we're old enough to know "that ship has sailed" for good.

The bottom line: It's not worth it. If You Have unopened boxes, unexplored dreams and aspirations, or un-achieved goals then attend to them Now rather than later (because the secret is that 'later' is signpost to a place that doesn't exist).

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