College Admissions Essay-The Uncertainty Of Impermanence

The Uncertainty of Impermanence For as long as I can remember, I have never really been able to sympathize with religion. The ideas presented were often too far-fetched or otherwise outlandish for me to appreciate. I have always been more for the sciences. This is not to say that the two cannot coexist, rather that the systematic nature of science has always appealed to me far more than the more ethereal nature of religious thought has. That being said, now that I have learned a bit more about Hinduism, and now that I have been able to step back and examine my life, I find that there is much about Hinduism which I can thoroughly appreciate. The system of karma, the belief in an open interpretation of how Brahman can be seen in everyday life, …show more content…
The most relatable aspects of the religion, to me, are its embracement of impermanence and the idea of karma. By embracing the fact that nothing can last forever, like those of the Hindu faith do, the field of physics is able to revive itself, to live life anew. In the same way, a large portion of college, so far, has been building up to something larger than myself and then knowing that that product, which I have poured a small fraction of my very being into, will soon become trivial. At the same time, while building this greater object that I am able to acknowledge is finite in its existence, I also acknowledge that the true meaning of what it is that I am making does not lie within the physical product, rather the true value is how it changes me as a person. How that work, that good karma, allows me to broaden my understanding of the world and become something new and greater than before. It is only through the way in which Hinduism has altered the lens through which I view the world that I was able to see