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December 3, 2016
The Search
How are you today? What have you been up to? How long did it take you to answer these questions? I mean how long did it take you to give an honest answer and not the usual drivel that questions like these usually call for.
But of course the second of the two questions does not really entail much so lets take it out of the equation. Why did I ask you that question in the first place? Hmmm…..let’s think. Because it seemed like the obvious follow up to the previous question. Hmph..well small talk does make up for a huge chunk of everyday conversations.
All right…let’s get back to the real question. How are you today? How do you feel? Are you happy or sad? Maybe you don’t know how you feel, after all it’s all just chemicals anyway.The elusive quest for happiness, for your mental well being but then again mental health does not really have anything to do with happiness. I mean a crazy person can be happy can’t he. How would you know? You’re not crazy. You’re sensible. You fit in with the norms of society so why would people not love you. You are just like them. You must be so happy among these people who are just like you, upstanding citizens of a civilised society. People who are always looking for those cues so that they can smile or they can cry or feel whatever outside stimulus allows them to feel instead of just breathing and letting go, instead of exploring your own mind because everything that’s in there is a product of what is out there.
But how can you make sense of what is out there and your place among it all unless you look inside or look in the mirror and understand what you are? You are a building block of society but that does not mean that you cannot change your shape. That block does not have to be square, it can be a circle or a straight line or it can be ragged around the edges. Would it really matter as long as it supports the weight of the rest of the structure? You don’t have to carry the weight on your shoulders, you can place it on your palm or balance it on a fingertip. What is that burden after all, the one that society places on you? It’s intangible. It’s not really a burden at all. Gazes can be shrugged off, words can answered, fists met with fists and in all of it lies the seed of anarchy. But isn’t present society the very example of anarchy, leaders without a purpose, laws without basis and in the middle of it all you, still searching for happiness in a world where misery and confusion has made its home in every heart, fear behind a facade of confidence. Because we know that it is fleeting. Society is fleeting and so is anarchy, happiness is fleeting and so is misery. The only thing that remains is the search, because the search can never end, it must go on. The search for happiness, for purpose, for it is the only thing that gives shape to our dreams and for a moment peace lives in the heart that is plagued by turmoil.
December 2, 2016
Three Rumi Quotes to get you hooked
― Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi
“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― Rumi
November 29, 2016
Of WORDS AND BROKEN HEARTS
“Do you have something that you wish to say to me?”
“A lot of things actually”
“Then why don’t you say them?”
“I’m afraid that my words will drive you away.”
“I could be no farther apart from you than I’m right now”
“I don’t want to lose you”
“You never had me in the first place. You do want us to be closer, don’t you?”
“Yes I do.”
“Then say what it is that you wish to say, if it pleases me I’ll stay and if not, well then it would not really make any difference for I was never here in the first place.Now what are you afraid of?”
“My mind knows the truth but the heart is such a frail little thing, easily broken.”
“Well then, this is goodbye. Protect your little heart while I wait for someone who loves me enough to risk having it scarred.”
November 22, 2016
Song for the day
I’m only a fool for you
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November 21, 2016
EPIC ONE LINERS -BOX VIEW
“WHAT BOX?,” SHE REPLIED.
November 19, 2016
November 17, 2016
The death of life and the discontent of a nation
I agree with every single word but agreement alone is not enough. Maybe we do need to take up arms, You and I, but not as anarchists, no, because we wish to replace the system with a better one and not merely abolish it.
By nation, I mean the whole fucking world. Reality seems to have been suspended, indefinitely, and we’ve accepted a new kind of world, one that is strange and lonely, broken and a little bit empty.
On one side of the pond we’ve just kicked ourselves out of the EU. America is on the brink of voting in one of the most ludicrous presidential candidates the free world has ever seen. Right wing sentiment is getting more airtime than it ever has before. The Great Barrier Reef is dead, which literally tells you everything you need to know about climate change. Consumerism is at an all time high and we’re just so very tired.
We work twelve-hour days at tiny desks while the air conditioning circulates dead dreams and failed ambitions. We don’t like the people we report to and we like our colleagues even less. All the hours we work…
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November 15, 2016
November 14, 2016
Of Beautiful Things
I wish to roam this planet,
in search of beautiful things-
the moments that bring us peace,
that show us that the meaning of life is not to strive but to live,
not to survive but to exist in such a way that we leave behind a mark in this Universe for all those who are to exist to remember us by.
But this is not just an individual goal, for an individual would never be able to fulfill it; this is a goal worthy of mankind and societies as a whole.
Though there maybe a few seekers, the one’s like you and me who want to see all that the world has to offer,
there are also builders and thinkers
the ones that take us forward for they create as much as we do and maybe more
and in the end that is the purpose of life –
to create.
November 13, 2016
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