Which Branch am I?

Angga Arifka
3 min readJun 16, 2021

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Being capable of knowing who we are does not decipher the terribly gigantic mystery on a complete understanding to decode how to be the real I being happy and authentic in the world in and from which we try to pump our knowledge on the mystery itself.

Despite being the cleverest person in the world, (s)he must continually ask who (s)he is and what all entities are. Human being never wants bearing in the world, but must keep wanting bearing by being determined by many sophisticated reeling accidents and each exhaustive preternatural coincidence which cannot be formulated in an exact symbol.

It is undeniable for us to track back what happened in the first event. Even if we can do it, we only know the only line which we try to track. In other words, we lack of “episteme” in order to investigate all of the various constellations which we are examining. Only by the multiple and various lines which we track back can we know comprehensiveness which has thrown us in “this event”.

Events, or we can compress it into “the here” and “the now” displaying themselves constantly in front of our existence, invariably become the mystery which we either try to grasp and understand or try to neglect and ignore. Events are like a tree with its many branches and leaves. We are consistently snared on one of the branches so that we become the specific leaf which we never supposed and expected before.

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How do we know who we are? Absolutely, we have constructed our childhood by identifying I-ness as the full identity to personalise the special one in the hope that our mind can keep holding the reality of personality which we uphold every single time. Thereafter, our consciousness grows the first thing trying to introduce us to be capable of identifying which is which and who is who.

Unfortunately, even if we have known our personality, as a person, we have never arrived at a conclusion to jump onto the whole ground to claim that we have known “which branch I am” and “why I am from the branch”. With a microscopic analysis, we only realize a single moment, an event “here and now” as the fact reality we dwell.

Not aware of the entire spectrum, we do not hesitate to overly affirm and reaffirm that that is not I and that this is I en bloc. Otherwise, we really have no any grip for us to comprehend our identity, so that our consciousness stops running to be aware of the reality — whether or not “I” exist.

Will we know which branch we are? Actually, this is the problem of (c)ability. Not only have we not been able to or will not be able to know which branch, but indeed we never know it because we can merely detect a present event only when the event is present. Scarcely can we know which because if we know it, we must have been able to decode the mystery and were able to determine which we wanted to be and not to be. In other words, briefly, we “would” never be who we “are”.[]

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Angga Arifka
Angga Arifka

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