"Everything is relative" is a paradox - or an oxymoron.
Einstein must have known that perfectly, but only a few people understood. How much of "everything" is "relative"? And how much "relative" can be "everything"?
We have a tendency to become absolute in our everyday life. But we are literally immersed in a flowing Universe, both physical and metaphysical. We are deep in flowing fields of gravitational waves and emotional turbulence. We struggle to keep steady, grasping a hypothetical stone, amid all that flowing, that is only in our fantasy. Anything can become that stone. A goal, a sentiment, love – or hate, a friend or an enemy, a dream, a religion, or disneyland. And that is good, but only if we are conscious that it's an impalpable, immaterial something, precisely like an atom. The only possible balance in the flowing is within us. I practiced several martial arts. Once I had to complete an exercise consisting of standing balanced on one leg, fixing a point in front of me. I was quite good at doing it. Then I had to close my eyes. Despite my efforts, I began to wave, and in few seconds, I had to put down the other foot to avoid falling. Once lost the external reference, I discovered there was no internal consciousness of me and my space.
Only if we comprehend that we are and are not – like Schroedinger cat – and cannot be steadily stuck to our reference stone and in the flow simultaneously- like Eisenberg particle - we are fulfilling life.
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