The Metaphysician’s Exulansis.
“Exulansis /ek·suhl·ahn·sis/ n. — the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it — whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness — which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical….”
— coined by John Koenig in his Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Metaphysicians are practitioners of their own ideas, ones who’ve chosen to seldom be understood by others in order to better understand their world.
The art of putting subjective thoughts into objective words, knowing how to frame different perspectives in different ways, understanding that nothing will be communicated exactly: all reside within the sphere of the metaphysician, and none are easy to conceptually ascertain.
Metaphysics wanders from truth when dealing with deeply personal feelings.
Aspects of the world are far too complex for people to truthfully understand, which is why metaphysics has been so controversial….
I mean, who wants to know about their own mind in glorious detail, or determine their purpose in life?
It’s usually easier just to keep those thoughts quiet to preserve their integrity.
Metaphysics alienates us on the basis of contradictions of worldview and personal experiences.
We’re always in conflict over differing viewpoints, opinions, beliefs, on every subject that exists. We have contradictions in thought which can be very destructive to at least society as a whole.
Therefore, a metaphysician’s job should be to resolve society's contradictions.
We write and read essays to make ourselves known to others, but also to ourselves, even though it’s not always pleasant or easy.
People who read metaphysics are often lonely and bored, always thinking to themselves in dark rooms, like shadow people.
Being a metaphysician means that you have a lot of free time, but always prone to existential crisis due to the worldviews in which you’re subjected:
In existential metaphysics, you deal with the choice to live or die, and to do so on your own terms….
In ethics, when you see the way people treat others with hatred and fear, you glimpse into what people go through, and how it feels to live like that….
In phenomenology, pessimism, and nihilism, you face the abysmal reality of subjective being….
To say the least, metaphysics means not being afraid to chase and define your feelings (including happiness and sorrow), to see through the collection of words translated to-and-from one language to another. Like the cosmic bodies transform in the sky, there will always be translations to be made, more definitions and descriptions to be needed, as there’s simply the entire universe to study, which might not even be the only reality.
