We choose how an event shapes us. Do we hate ourselves for it? Will we learn? Does the world look colder for it? All possibilities. Yet you've chosen to see it positively. Something you could only notice by yourself and learn on your own. Painful as they may be we struggle on.
"Will I come up for air?" The same can be asked while being dragged through life. We swallow down too much life to breath and must swim to its calmer surface to continue living. The theft of our lives is committed through our failure to move on.
I'm proud of you. To see you changing before my very eyes warms my heart in a way it hadn't felt for so long. "Leave nothing that resembles a soul." The only outcome we have for ourselves if we don't follow the path you've helped yourself down. Being with you as you went down that road makes me happy to no end. We will have our time. This is merely a test to see if we can maintain what we claim we have.
To make someone proud is so blissful, almost as much as being with the person whom you care about. I'm sure the time will come, but it is worth the wait<3
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ReplyDeleteI think we all are desperate for an explanation. Although I may be far from enlightenment, I do know how important it is for me to look forward and know that although life may be frustrating, confusing and sometimes overwhelming, I will become the person I envision if I stay determined. I don't know how to get there or what I will learn along the way, I just need to start moving.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading a book about the founder of Buddhism's journey to enlightenment. On the back of my version it says, "...Hesse's crafting of Siddhartha's journey shows that understanding is attained not through scholastic, mind-dependent methods, nor through immersing oneself in the carnal pleasures of the world and the accompanying pain of samsara; however, it is the totality of these experiences that allow Siddhartha to attain understanding." Or as my philosophy teacher puts it, "Our experiences in the world shape our understanding of the world."
So I say instead of thinking your head off about life, go out and experience as much as you can. Once you do, you will truly understand it. Its just like film making. What do you do in a film making class? YOU MAKE FILMS!! Then hopefully you learn how to not fail at making them haha.
Thats why I said you sounded like Descartes the other day. Descartes was a philosopher who sat in his room and pondered the world instead of interacting with it. He wanted to get to the foundation of knowledge by doubting the existence of everything first. He concluded that the only thing he could be sure of is his and God's existence. Although I appreciate his work, its all horse crap to me. We need to be in and a part of the world in order to understand it!!! haha.
Feel me? You are such a hipster.
You are correct. The world waits for no man as things pass him by.
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