Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Actual Fantasy

I live in a world of fantasies, how terribly normal they are.  Nothing holds me back besides my own thoughts.  Always battling with my thoughts, my expectations, my wishes.  Who am I fighting?  I'm fighting on both sides, its a civil war, with Artillery.  Just tossing mindless bombs, uncaring where they land, knowing that it doesn't really matter, in the end I will hit something important and cause yet another halt.  It was once said, all wars are civil.  At once it is the greatest truth and worst sick joke the world has ever seen, depeneding on the meaning.  All wars are civil because all wars are with oneself, projected outward, or worse still, focused inward.  But no war is civil.  All wars are horrible things, with no true winner, and oh so many losers... Losers without number, mothers weeping alone in dark places, fathers with dead eyes, brothers with heavy hearts, sisters with warm silent tears, and yourself.  Inside we are all of these things.  So imagine the destruction of a war turned inward.  Imagine being on both sides of a war, imagine every blow to be one to your soul.

I'm done standing in my own way.  I'm done with these wars of our fathers.  There is in this world such a thing as nonlinear shift in any system.  We see it all the time, where logic and structure brake down.  Sometimes its at the ends and beginnings, sometimes just at random places.  The moment before change, great change, feels much like any other, normal, boring, unimportant.  The second before the spark ignites a twig, sets off a branch, lights a tree, burns a forest.  Such a small place in time and space, such a small thing, and even before it is a small thing, even before it is, it was nothing.  Just another peaceful moment in a forest, the birds singing, the flowers embracing the sun with out a care.  Just another moment like so many others.

There needs to be no progression; that is a system I look for in nature.  Its what I seek so that's what I find.  What else would I see if I got out of the way?  What else would I see if "I" got out of the way?  Where does fantasy end and reality begin?  Can you point to a place and say "Here, this is it."?  I can't, just as I see the world I see past the world, because I am in my perception of the world.  My perception is the world.  So why do I perceive a world of linier expansion?  Easy, because I expect to see it, so the better question is why do I perceive a world of liner expansion?  Its a long and boring answer, and maybe its not worth going into.  Why give it all more energy then it already steals, quick and silent and so seductive.  The best question of all is why not stop?


Secrets are best when shared.  This is not a contradiction.


The war is done.  This moment needs no deflection, no conflict.  It can be that easy.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

The Waiting

And the waiting begins. Its strange to be sitting among a perfectly random group of my peers. To think that there was a computer somewhere pulling people at random to be here today. Every archetype is represented. Who do I represent?

Not the young business man. No, that's him over there, looking sharp and collected, like he has other things that need doing. Not the slacker, that's him who just past, no question. Sweat pants and slippers, the whole nine yards. And you can see it in his eyes, he doesn't want to be here the most... Maybe not the most, that girl looks so sad, as if it were she herself on trail today. Where's her badge? Can I just not see it from here or was she dragged here on the other side of the bench?

Maybe I am the token nerd, the young and anti-social. I am, after all, writing this. Would it make me cool to just sit here and be bored out of my mind like everyone else? Ah and here we have the suffer dude, in complete regalia. Beanie, knit sweater, sandals and an Ipod a hairs breath from falling out of his back pocket. Complete with typical longish sandy blond hair. Well... it is Malibu, after all.

It would be nice to fit in so simply with an archetype. I'm just another guy, hard to pin down. A bit bigger then the rest maybe, and in need of a hair cut. Simple pants, nondescript sweatshirt, modest shoes. The guy who should have shaved this morning but there just wasn't time. The guy who writes because there's nothing else to do, but still manages to misspell "wasent" every time. Find me in a crowd and maybe you would forget me just as quickly. I don't stand out, but I feel like I am so far away from these people.