Alone in the Corridor by Can Berkol

Alone in the Corridor by Can Berkol

Immortality

We are the lonely walkers of this corridor called life. It doesn't matter how many friends you have or how close you are to your family. The one inevitable truth is that you get born alone and you die alone. The start and the end is the same; and whatever you encounter in between remains in between. You have not had them before and you cannot have them after.

Time is a scarce resource. If we are lucky we have only enough time to understand the nature of this corridor, not more…

The immortality is in other words a different way of living: a life beyond the scarcity of time. Yet if we can model everything in a mathematical or scientific formula, then we should accept that immortality cannot exist.

First of all, if time is relative then there is a point A and point B set in different values for each of us. We are destined to travel from point A to B. We discover some Xs and Ys along the way. Some of these unknowns cross each other out.

Now, as long as we are in this corridor we do not have a chance to see what’s beyond. We cannot know where the point C is therefore it’s impossible for us to extend point B to where point C is. And as long as we cannot extend point B to another location, then immortality will only means to re-experience the same path more than once. As in there is always more than one way to solve an equation…

But once solved, what’s next?

We all are different unknowns of this equation and we have to cross each other out so that the equation can continue in stability.

We cannot exist to the absolute end but we can relive the equation more than once. Yet every experience will end more or less at the same point.

You can call this faith, or an equation. Yet when you are at the end the only thing you can do is to go back and you can only do the proof of the equation, nothing more… Then you end up in a vicious circle, a deadlock.  And it means you are dead but your reflection remains in this corridor. And maybe you can name this the soul or the ghost. I don’t know.

If we want to overcome death, we have to lose our ties with time. We have to race it and we have to win. Yet as long as the only thing we can see is the light and as long as we keep measuring it through time, it is impossible to reach beyond.

In today’s thinking what awaits us at the end of the corridor is the way back but not forth. That’s why we call the soul immortal but the body mortal…

We are the lonely walkers of this corridor called life. It doesn't matter how many friends you have or how close you are to your family. The one inevitable truth is that you get born alone and you die alone. The start and the end is the same; and whatever you encounter in between remains in between. You have not had them before and you cannot have them after.

Time is a scarce resource. If we are lucky we have only enough time to understand the nature of this corridor, not more…

The immortality is in other words a different way of living: a life beyond the scarcity of time. Yet if we can model everything in a mathematical or scientific formula, then we should accept that immortality cannot exist.

First of all, if time is relative then there is a point A and point B set in different values for each of us. We are destined to travel from point A to B. We discover some Xs and Ys along the way. Some of these unknowns cross each other out.

Now, as long as we are in this corridor we do not have a chance to see what’s beyond. We cannot know where the point C is therefore it’s impossible for us to extend point B to where point C is. And as long as we cannot extend point B to another location, then immortality will only means to re-experience the same path more than once. As in there is always more than one way to solve an equation…

But once solved, what’s next?

We all are different unknowns of this equation and we have to cross each other out so that the equation can continue in stability.

We cannot exist to the absolute end but we can relive the equation more than once. Yet every experience will end more or less at the same point.

You can call this faith, or an equation. Yet when you are at the end the only thing you can do is to go back and you can only do the proof of the equation, nothing more… Then you end up in a vicious circle, a deadlock.  And it means you are dead but your reflection remains in this corridor. And maybe you can name this the soul or the ghost. I don’t know.

If we want to overcome death, we have to lose our ties with time. We have to race it and we have to win. Yet as long as the only thing we can see is the light and as long as we keep measuring it through time, it is impossible to reach beyond.

In today’s thinking what awaits us at the end of the corridor is the way back but not forth. That’s why we call the soul immortal but the body mortal…

  • Equipment

    Carl Zeiss 28mm f/2.8
    Leica M9

  • Shooting Specs.

    Date Published: February 23, 2012
    Date Taken: February 10, 2012
    Aperture: f/2.8
    Shutter Speed: 1/6
    ISO: 250
    Focal Length: 28 mm

  • Post-Processing

  • Notes

    I am walking throug time, I'm walking by my life.

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