WHITEHEAD'S
I really find a hard time organizing some of my limited ideas about this topic which could have a great relevance with the kind of Philosophy Alfred North Whitehead has. I find his philosophy as fluid as water, that one cannot even hold or take a grasp in his/her hands. The words are strange, the ideas peculiar, and the line of thought, alien. In short, the ideas seems floating. It is very metaphysical, without any seemingly foundation in reality.
Despite of the many things which seems to me ungraspable from this man of metaphysical thoughts, I still feel at home with what he said:
"Connectedness is the essence of all things". He goes as if by saying that everything has a proper place and a particular role to fulfill in this world, a bond of connectedness between each of the actual entities in the world.His thoughts would only echo on how I look at God, the creator of all these "actual entities". God is all knowing, all powerful, all present. In short, He is perfect. He has a perfection which cannot be absolutely shared to others. Basing myself on this idea, God would not create something which finds itself no place in this world of the material or has no use at all. All of these "actual entities" are good, and therefore, useful and are not out-of-place. Each has something to contribute others created beings, which other created being cannot do in place of it.
From this, we can say that "Ang lahat ng bagay ay magka-ugnay (All things are interconnected)". Nothing exists which is useless and a loner. And that, nothing also exists which is a universe of its own.
Likewise, this is true to the state of our humanity. Each individual man is created by God in order to do something good for humanity and for the world. He does not live alone; he must not be alone. He has a community of persons to live and relate with.
Because of his role for others, each man is unique and has a true but different identity from other persons. He has something to give which others do not have. Only he and there is no other.
This would arrived at my point: each one of us counts. We are not just living for our own lives, but we also live in order for others will also live. The course of history is becomes different when each of us was born. Each of us changes the path to the future which eventually becomes history tomorrow. The world undergoes a certain inclination of influence towards the end when I was born, when he was born, when she was born, when you were born.
Our one and only existence counts and therefore each one of us is precious in the eyes of God. Our human life is very precious and has a priceless value. No one has the proper right to buy it or take it, except God the source of all life. Through human existence, we fill up that void of the jigsaw puzzle which is composed of created beings' interconnected. And we got the right size and the exact figure for that gap which no one can fill up for us. And if ever, we fail to do our part, the reason of our human existence, the jigsaw puzzle of created existences would remain incomplete for eternity. Without us, the holistic progress of humanity and of the created world would not attain integrity and will be deprived of its supposedly actualization.