Life is short. To short sometimes and more often then not we lose sight of what's truly in front of us. We take for granted all the little things that mean so much. It's hard not to do it in this day and age. All of us are in a hurry going from place to place. We want instantaneous results, we don't want to have to wait for anything. Little patience and even littler time. It's sad really how we forget to enjoy the world and those around us, sad how we forget the people we meet, the impact they make on us and the impact they make on the world, little do they realize just how important they are, little do we realize how important we are. That we're all meant for something greater then whatever it is we're doing presently and yet we fail to see it. Fail to see life for what it is, the blessings it brings, the mysteries, the joy, and the pain it brings and how it's always there to teach us a lesson if we're ready and willing to listen. Surrounding us, comforting us, making it seem like things are better then what they are before life is truly over. It's funny how life works. You think someone will be there for you, forever and then you wake up and realize they're gone and all you're left with is an ache, a hollow empty ache within the core of your spirit and you want the ache to subside, to go away, and it doesn't ever leave you. But, you go on and you move forward, living the life you've always lived, instantaneous results and all.
--Slow down, breathe, reflect, wonder at the little things. You'd be surprised at all you are missing..--
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Profound post.
> we're all meant for something greater than whatever it is we're doing presently and yet we fail to see it.
We many can't find the pearl inside or outside. We dive long and short, we worn ourselvers swimming in a giant sea the soul is. We rest at the shore, we enjoy the sand and water, enjoy surroundings, but the thirst is there still. A life might pass searching one pearl, and might appear unexpectedly... the thing is, each pearl, redefines previous ones and ulterior ones... the finest pearls made us get used to their greater quality, and life passes on, looking for one that can spread the pleasure the previous provoked. We try to be the same as the pearls we find, we try the power and value of virtue; we are still in a giant sea to explore. We wait, we work, we pay attention, we become workoholic many times; we are still in a giant sea. Feeling alone no matter how much in companionship. Existential solitude is common to us all.
We try, we try... outside what virtue accomplishes or not, we need to ease the thirst, with instant gratification or with deferred gratification. We might miss many things or not, but the level of quality of the pearls we find, keeps rising up with the accumulation of our experiences, and time to find better ones and swimming our time, for good or bad, keeps lowering, and lowering down. Our expectations gets higher by the impulse of our experience through time.
Time has many uses. Virtue is one. Decay another. Hurting himself and others are low and common ways to instant gratification. One big point is getting peace of mind while one is swimming around its soul and life; many times life just gives the appearance of being only a cruel meaningless made of Absence... the sea is a monstruous space.
Achievements does not gratify without peace and freedom, you meant?.
I've never found another way to earn peace and freedom that what I've said there, through that kind of deferred gratification: raising the standards, the only way to virtue I know yet (34 years).
The path is hard to find, where there are no tracks.
In ever-highering eagle-circles up
- Tennyson.
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