Chaos Theory - Theory of Life

I coined this term (chaos Theory) long back (in my 20s) thinking this is only me who is making it up. Later I realized that this is a universally accepted one. Either way this theory probably is as complete as a simple theory can be.

There are few assumptions that need to be made. This philosophy does not bother to address biggest questions of other philosophies, the universal questions of life - who am I?, What is the point of the world?, Where does this come from?, What happens when I die?

This is the ultimate 'User Friendly' Philosophy! If you think about it, most religions, atheist and scientific debate is on things that don't really matter on a day to day basis. So this Philosophy can work if the above question's answer is - I don't care.

It's basic tenet is - Life is a chaos, and delves strictly within the boundaries of after birth to death. You are in midst of a chaos so don't try to look for patterns. Or in more poetic and filmy words - जो जो जब जब होता है, वो वो तब तब होता है।  (whatever happens ... just happens). This relieves you of any burden of finding patterns or trying to figure out meaning when there is none.

Later when I googled it I found chaos theory is a real theory in mathematics with similar findings - there are so many variables acting on the result of one thing, that if you slightly change one thing the effect may or may not come out to be completely different which can never be predicted.

If you see your life as in midst of a chaos the best thing that happens is for you to stop looking for patterns - if I do good - good will come to me. If I work very hard - I will win. If I do bad - I will be looked down upon, if someone is rich he must be smart, all this instead of making a person feel good, makes them depressed because when the perceived result does not happen it create resentment and confusion. This simplification of life makes life harder.

Let's take an example - you are driving everyday. There are random people driving around you, you may or may not make good decisions and still reach your destination. If someone crashes into you, it is because at that point of time that's what happened.

Now you can be wondering this is the most simplistic theory which probably everyone knows, then what's the big deal! That exactly is the big deal, in philosophy and mathematic they say - simpler the better, answer is right if it is simple. If there was no theory superimposed on you in childhood probably you will device this theory for yourself, that whatever is happening is just happening, there is no one to blame, nor do I need to blame myself.

For every moment of your life, there are millions of forces enacting on that moment, which one will superimpose the other, we don't know. You try exercising the 2-3 forces that are in your control, that doesn't mean they will be the superior force at that time. This philosophy does not completely negate the cause and effect phenomenon, but admits that the cause and effect is so complicated that it might as well be considered to have no effect.

Though this theory probably seems more aligned to Atheist philosophy, but I think all philosophy's basic tenet is this, religions or no religions all they want is people to be prepared for - things that don't make sense, because there is no sense to be made! But they try to explain it away by some feel good stuff around this basic skeleton of chaos. For Example - In Gita when Lord Krishna says - keep doing work, don't worry about the result, he basically is giving nod to this theory, he admits that the cause and effect if true is so complicated that it makes no sense to worry about it, find joy in the journey itself!

I lived with this philosophy for couple of decades and this was water tight and fine in most circumstances. I know it is pretty boring but it works!