Of the Indivisible Line

I had a discussion with a friend once, what would be the first thing we could communicate with an outer space alien? He believed that the alien would instantly be able to understand our mathematics, that they are totally universal laws of logic, a must for any rational being capable of space travel. A strong argument, but something I often disagreed with, I had once told him emotion was the key to logic, he was almost offended by this argument. But I still stand by it, perhaps more so now I have read Aristotle, and what he called the indivisible line, my interpretation is that the line dividing the greater from the lesser, is always apparent to our knowledge but never to fact. So we are always aware of what we consider greater but can never describe it as a universal fact, it is always an opinion.

My own thesis would change it slightly, so that the line was between better or worse, this idea works because it describes a change, something gets better, it is a guide to change. I'm an optimist, my reality is ever improving, an idealist in the political and philosophical sense, thought is guided by intuition and past mistakes are always corrected. Politically this is through reformation and revolution, the same as science, and philosophically this is done through better or worse. Our minds are as comparing, always contrasting, we assess the ideas we like, the ones that make us happy, but also find the sad ones, the regrets, the guilt, the vices.

In 2013 I started to use recreational drugs again, I had gone four years without using street drugs, and I had suffered with depression for almost the whole of 2012. When I started to use drugs again, they made me feel amazing, like they had done at the age of twenty, for two years from the start of 2013, I used more and more stronger and stronger until I started using heroine in 2014, that's when I knew I needed to stop, and I did and I fell into depression again, making a suicide attempt at the end of 2014. Now I am drug free, I still take medication, I know if I use street drugs again I will get a rush of happiness, but my current happiness is more sustainable, work and friends, family and writing these are my drugs now. But can I call it fact that I am better without drugs, is it a better better, can I find the ideal me at the end of all those betters? I think I can.