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title: "The Points of Our Lives · Driven By Our Holograms (CW005)"
heading: "The Points of Our Lives · Driven By Our Holograms (CW005)"
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updated: "2026-01-27T18:59:00+00:00"
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description: "Everybody's looking for something. What's the point though? Pursuing your desires. Fleeing from your fears. On duty in service of others. Your identity crafted around all that. But that's just the starting point for our inquiries... What's the point of your point? Is there a point to any of it?"
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**Words:** 603 ⁘ **Length:** 03:00 min ⁘ **Created:** 2026-01-25 ⁘ **Updated:** 2026-01-27

 Everybody's looking for something. What's the point though? Pursuing your desires. Fleeing from your fears. On duty in service of others. Your identity crafted around all that. But that's just the starting point for our inquiries...

What's the point of your point? Is there a point to any of it? Your shell of an identity, that bucket for your points. Not born of any lasting essence — just a hologram spawning from conditions in transit. These are the uneasy questions.

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**You walk around and wonder — what's the point?** All these people going their merry ways, hasty ways. What actually is the point? Sure you have the couple of random drifters, but most people, they have some sort of an aim and direction. Whatever it is that they pursue.

It's obviously not something you go and ask straight up. "Mister, what's your point? Is there any point to what you're doing?" But it is the sort of thing we reflect on. Most everyone will come up with some sort of a bottom line. In pursuit of their desires. Fleeing from their fears. Or on duty, taking care of the needs for their family, etc. 

But that's not the end point. That's simply where the actual questions are being asked. What's the point of your point? Is there a point to what drives you? These are uneasy questions.

"My point, is I want to be rich or recognized. I want to be known as the guy who does the right thing." Then you take these points, connect the dots, and so becomes your identity. Not truly born from the essence inside of you, but instead sculpted by your environment.

All these pushes and pulls, positive and negative drivers, the vectors we embark on in our lives, they weave together the mesh and the loom of our self-conception. Is there any point to that though? Such an ephemeral casting. A child of particular causes under particular conditions. But there you jump in. That's your ride. That is you. 

And so we become conditioned by this fractured but very pointed identity, pursuing the countless seemingly important points in our lives. Now I'm not saying you should discard it all. It's basically a valid construct, has come into being for a reason. 

What I'm saying is, do not be devoured by it, absorbed into it. Witness it. On a meta-cognitive plane, cognizant of cognition itself. Recognizing all of your contents, including the fibers that sculpt into being your identity itself. Liberated from their conditions, engaging them as appropriate, but not driven by them.

When you are immersed and devoured by all of it, then your points become trigger points. Not good for you. When you allow yourself to be triggered, positive or negative, by the comings and goings of the world and its manifold people, you forfeit your sovereignty.

True freedom only exists in independence from your reactivity. Where none dictates the conclusions you should reach, or even the emotions you should feel. You are at liberty to arrive at conclusions and to feel what is. As it stems from the fabric of uncoated reality itself.

In there, we find points worth mentioning. The rest of it but haze in the horizon, droplets of mist in the dome of your sky. Then whatever that the holograms in the haze tell you that you should be and you should do, take it with a grain of salt. Ever sovereign, we are but casual watchers on the witness plane. Be well.