"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
- Stephen Hawking, on what advice he has passed on to his three children, in an interview with Diane Sawyer
Hawking's helpful advise ... his solutions to the most basic questions of our existence:
ReplyDeletewhere did we come from?... why does it feel like this?... how do we communicate these feelings?
Survival is the one thing we can never give up on. Understanding where we came from allows us our versatility. Defining precise systems of communication lets us relate that knowledge to just about anything. That system is then utilized to alter the state around us..to better suit our own needs. The work that defines us as humans......the work we should never give up doing...
Love is an expression, and communicating it is entertaining. We can give up on love and still survive, but if we give up on survival we would die.
Love is the force that bonds our hearts together...but can it really be thrown out? Theoretically, information can never be destroyed, making it impossible for love to be thrown away....
But Hawking explains a possible caveat via his multiverse theory...that light in a black hole may eventually escape into another universe. So, what If we do throw away love, does it make its way into some other multiverse?
Maybe that's what he meant when he said that we should be looking at the stars rather than our feet. That by looking into the gravitational belts of the cosmos it's like looking into the unifying bodies of life...of all that love waiting to be rediscovered...