I Am Here Existing

by Sam Dionisio


The lecture about maps left me thinking that maybe people just want to be remembered. They want their existence to be known and acknowledged. I think it is in us humans to not want to leave this world unnoticed and unremembered. So we have maps. We use maps to establish where we are and where we want to be. We get to know that we exist and we get to tell others that we exist through maps because we know  we are there/ where we are right now and that we want to go somewhere. Existence for me starts first with you yourself acknowledging your presence and continues on to you wanting to go somewhere or you having the desire to go outside the self-acknowledgment of your own presence and existence and to go to extra miles of letting others see that too. Maybe subconsciously we have maps to tell others that we are there and that we exist and for those not part of this world anymore, it is a way for them to say that they were once there too. Also, maybe we have maps because we try to find sense or meaning as to why we are here. Because if no one's gonna remember, you get to think what's all of this for after all. Why are we all here if in the end no one will notice our inexistence and no one will remember our very existence. So we try to shout at the world that we are here. We try to leave a mark or do something quite remarkable so that before we leave we can somehow be remembered.