I Am Happy To Be Here
Sunday, August 31st 2008
It Is Sad Part Of My Personal Philosophy Is Summed Up In A Commercial
I truly believe we live, as a society, in a State of Fear. Politicians, media, religious groups and others all play off of it. It is a pessimistic, depressing view of the world. The theme is: everything is to be feared; tomorrow is going to be terrible unless you do what I say.
What bullshit.
Now, I have my personal religious faith. But even if there was nothing else, existence is amazing. There is something incredible to even being part of the universe. Even if your personal time is fleeting there is something tiny, nearly unmeasurable, but tangible in you having been. Think of how huge the universe is and yet, to have witnessed what I have in this tiny, tiny part of it that I can behold is amazing. The fact you are even here reading this is a wonderment. It is incredible.
Not to get all morbid or stoic or eastern. How could just a single day of consciousness not be worth death even if there was nothing else to follow? To witness even the mediocrities of life, even the hard parts and the suffering, is a gift and nothing less.
We really have to stop taking the world around us for granted. There should be so much optimism rather than fear. Oh well, I guess our predilection for pessimism is and of itself a pretty interesting and cool thing to ponder and wonder over.
hey great post! will be reading your blog more -
hey great post! love it! will be reading your blog more often- found it on paul levy’s blog.
haha you can delete that last post -thought the first one didn’t go through. sorry about blog spam.
“There are two ways of living in this world, the way of worry and the way of relaxation.
If you worry, you have to concentrate, to imagine and it becomes physical work. But if you turn your mind to the Universal mind, then things will come to you.
Tomorrow always becomes today and yesterday is always gone. Therefore, life is a gift. Don’t drift or create a rift. Be happy as long as breath is in you.”
-Yogi Bhajan
Today is a gift ,that’s why it’s called “the present”
you are so right when you say that one moment of consciousness worths even death no matter if this will be the end of any road. sometimes i think that because time has no limit the probability that me and you and and anybody to get born raises. So this means that we should be here in this form and death is not the end, and we will still exist in another form..and we were never truly born…we just changed our appearance.
We shall rethink life in general.. we are star dust.star matter begun to be aware of its existence as a whole..this might be just a step in our existance