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Re: Waiting..
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatik
At the very beginning we start to convince ourselves that life will be better after we finish university, get a degree..then a job.
We are constantly waiting...waiting for the semester to end, waiting until Spring, Summer and then until Fall..
There is always this set of goals we center on..one after the other. Constantly waiting to finish work, then get home, only to fidget pointlessly and flip chronically through several absurd sitcoms and dramas awaiting the sudden yet anticipated ring of the phone..the reason to leave home again..
Waiting for the end of the month, the weekend to go out, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, then a few more drinks, just to wait until you've sobered up again..
We are constantly waiting, waiting to get married, to have kids, to see them grow up..waiting to move out of the house, buy a new house and then waiting to pay off the house!
Then an epiphany, a blinding realization, that maybe..JUST maybe.. there is more to this..
"Life is a journey, not a destination." |
You're still thinking too small.
'Waiting' implies that your life consists of being poised for when opportunities to indulge in the habits of your niche open themselves at a socially acceptable calculation of movement. It doesn't have to be like that. Or maybe it does - depending on you.
It's a very common thing amongst people to consider "time" in a very linear fashion. As though you are always living in the past or living in the future - you are waiting for something that is going to happen 5 minutes from now or an hour from now - that meeting, that date, that time that television show comes on. This is where your 'waiting' comes in. But there are parts of the world where people do not live like that because they were not conditioned as such. They don't have wristwatches and cellphones and other devices which approximate an arbitrarily humanistic value of movement within our environment. This is why substances such as drugs and alcohol are so attractive to people - they let one lose that false sense of time where they are always 'waiting'. When under the influence of (most) substances, you are not thinking about the errands you have to do tomorrow or how you are going to be able to afford rent 6 months from now. You're detached from all those things which you have to wait for and can simply indulge in the gratifying instance that is living without a sense of time.
Time is the most precious commodity that any of us have. But even that is a lie, for time does not exist; we have just built this empire of "logic" that tells us that time is something we can have or own or take or keep when, really, it's just a passing thing we can scarcely understand much less have any control over. So ignore it once in a while.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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