The key to reaching answers to life's enigmas often lies in Perspective.Unfortunately, Perspective is earned through suffering, or at least wading through adversity. And therein lies the subtle tragedy of the play we're all forced to perform. For if ascribing reason to the Universe's questions is the path to happiness, its pursuit requires us to unlock the box handed down from the heavens. As with the Tree of Life to our primordial ancestors, we are inexorably drawn to poke at the beast; for its the pain from long-healed scars that reminds us that we are human; of the world we could be in, but are not. Without pain, there can be no relief; light without darkness; hope without despair.
The best actors refuse to admit that there even is a play. Idyllic fantasies of endless feasts without something having to give up its life to cater to the whims of an insatiable mob. Life is the serendipitous byproduct of an orb that inherently involves destruction.
It is a shame that the very path to Perspective often leads to a complete loss of faith, be it in humanity, 'the system' or whoever we see fit to lay blame for our own deficiencies in perseverance. It may be an evolutionary survival-skill for the psyche to dwell in our pasts which invariably seems to only consist of snippets of a black history, but the moment it blinds us to what 'is', we are lost in a bottomless spiral of self-destructive patterns.
Open your eyes. Look through the insurmountable decay to the saplings which spring from it.
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I do realize that my rants seem to possess borderline-schizophrenic discontinuities at times. I could attribute them to poetic license, but it's just my lacking as a writer to un-jumble what's running through my head fast enough before I either lose interest in the piece or totally forget what point I was getting at. I have my good days and my bad...today was pretty blatantly the latter. So give me a break...I already have.
ok, sweets, this wasnt one of your bad days.. infact, i would say its one of your better days.. not that i've read much of your writing but yea..
everybody gets kinda crazy sometimes.. and what you've written isnt crazy..
you've managed to put into words what a lot of us feel, but do not say for whatever reason. the only thing i dont like about it is, (and this is and has always been one of my hangups) that the language could be a little less obstruse. but then i'm always advocating putting things in simple terms.. so it could be just me..
"Open your eyes" You seem to call yourself a "realist" also, I am sorry, you seemed to be a little too biased. Your posts make sense, although there is another side to all of it which you either fail to see or choose to ignore. Call it fear perhaps?'
This is in response to the above post which seems to have been deleted. Unsure as to why, though. Although it was a bit troll-ish...it will take a little more than that to make me raise an eyebrow.
Anyway, to the topic at hand: despite the obvious negativity thats at the surface of the post, the message of it seems to have totally missed you. The last para, which you even partially quoted, was a calling for the ppl to persevere in the face of all that negativity.
Whats this 'other side' you speak of? Happiness? Because i did mention it. Infact, i valued it even higher when you have something negative to compare it with...or its absence. Also, not mentioning something isnt the same as denial.
Everyone is bound to face atleast one dark time in their lives (again, thats not me denying anything...its just the way things work). And there are 2 things it can do to you/you can do to it (however u want to look at it): (1. )succumb (second last para) (2.) pull through and become stronger from it (last para which links back to the end of para 2).
Infact, i thought that this post was a lot sugar-ier and spicier and everything nice-ier than my regular work, considering for once i was asking ppl to be optomistic to pull themselves out of the things i rant about.
And about the realist\cynic connection...if youre alluding to the 'romantic renaissance' post, as i mentioned, i composed it a while back...and now i think differently of myself. This isnt the 'Ramblings of a Realist'. Hence most of my posts are going to be steeped in negativity, soetimes with a counterpointing message, sometimes not. Again, its not denial...im just highlighting the side of issues which many seem to conveniently leave out when theyre saying how beautiful the world is.
Dont get me started on the topic of 'fear'. Yes, i am terrified of sunlight, butterflies, dimples, tootsie rolls and hope. I need to make the world as dark and lifeless as i am so i can crawl out of my hole in the ground. Just like lincoln pointed out the evils of slavery just to piss off the white folk and because he was afraid of all the work he wouldnt have to do otherwise.
I need to make the world as dark and lifeless as i am so i can crawl out of my hole in the ground.
Can you please elaborate?
lol, i was being sarcastic.
and now i think differently of myself.
What were you earlier, what are you now?
"The best actors refuse to admit that there even is a play."
Here is a classic example of the bias I mentioned. Did you attempt to find out if the "actors" knew there is a "play" or if they were forced to play their part. Your posts make me feel that you think of human mind as something not-so-complex.
The more I read your posts, the more I want to talk about it.
I am not talking about happiness when I say "the other side". It is obvious that people write from their perspective. Actually, know what..I forgot what I had in mind. I will "comment" once my head starts working again.
You say i consider myself a 'realist'. The only reference to that was in the Romantic Renaissance post, which was something i wrote a long time ago. The blog is called the Cynic's Scythe...make the connection.
are you asking me to justify my use of 'plays' and 'actors' as a metaphor to life? or to defend my statement that some ppl dont know/accept that there even is one?
Again youre throwing around the word 'bias' very whimsically. Where is the bias? I state that some ppl dont know there is a play, the best 'actors'. That clearly implies that there are others who do know it. Isnt that me showing both sides of the coin? How would i make a comment, unless i saw something happen for itself? so in direct answer to your, "Did you attempt to find out if the "actors" knew there is a "play" or if they were forced to play their part", yes, yes i did. is that a sufficient answer, or do i need to send u photographic proof? Am i required to attach such proof to my posts every time i write a new article? Infact, lets make painters of abstract art obligated to write a 1000-page thesis justifying and explaining (prooving) their interpretation of their work. Who are they to say what their art is?
And it takes a very complex set of algorithms to make a system capable of denying what lies right in front of it. The result may make the system behave simplistically, but the process which it has to go through to get there is complex. And as far as i know, the 'human mind' is the only thing ive seen capable of fooling itself.
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