To the universe, our life is pointless. We are nothing but a small insignificant part of it. You could live a thousand lifetimes, yet that still would not be enough to understand how the universe works. And even if we try to unearth as many secrets as we could, questions will continue to resurface—endless questions that would never fill the void of satisfaction that we need.
The mysteries of the universe continues to expand with it. As if the universe itself is telling us that we are unworthy to understand its meanings. The universe is, after all, everything that we can and cannot perceive. It is both the rational and the irrational, the light and the dark, the positive and the negative and we can list endless polarities to describe it but we will never truly grasp what the universe is.
And to fill the void of not understanding the universe, we start to create our own. We made the universe smaller, and in theory, much easier to understand. We put ourselves in its center as if the world revolves around us. As if we are our own universe—we populate it with our own stories, surround ourselves with the characters of our choice, and fill its pages with our own ink. To fill the void, we pretend to be the protagonists of our own universe, thinking that we can control it. And the most fascinating thing is, there is a word created just for that: youniverse.
Youniverse is defined as the word you create around yourself—including circumstances, everyday choices, friends, and the way you portray yourself to others.[1] It is a way we enable ourselves to create our own reality—our own youniverse.
My youniverse mainly revolves around words. Words. I consider them as the building blocks of the universe. The infinite, indescribable universe is filled with words to somehow give meaning to it—to describe it. To fill its mysteries with answers. To describe the indescribable—I don’t think there is a word created for this yet.
Thousands of emotions, circumstances, and phenomena are still beyond the scope of words—meaning the world has not created the perfect words for them yet. And I intend to fill that void.
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1. definition of youniverse in the Urban Dictionary website.
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