Fog
By: Dave BalentineIt's 5AM, do you know where your mind is? And is mine there? Well if you see it, tell it to come home, it's late, or early, whatever.
Life is dangerous, do you realize that? I don't mean to flesh and bones, though that is often the case too, but I mean life. Existing. Our ability to think coherent thoughts (well, maybe that's going too far...) or just our ability to have some sort of sense of reason and purpose for being here. From one second to the next, things change, people say things, and everything makes a difference. It's like driving through fog on a familiar road. You know where everything is, you know what's out there, and you know that sooner or later, you'll encounter it, but that makes very little difference. You can be driving down the road at whatever pace you choose, and as far as you're concerned, even knowing what's there, nothing exists beyond what you can see in your little bubble of space. As you look farther away from you, the fog seems thicker, strives harder to conceal what is not to be known yet. And so your life consists completely of what is right around you. As you come to things down the road you have only the time from when it is revealed by the fog until you reach it to react. No more, no less, even knowing that it may be there. What is outside the bubble that you can see makes no difference.
Life is dangerous, because as much as we want to see beyond the fog, we aren't allowed to. Not by our superiors or anyone else, but by ourselves alone. The parts of life that are beyond our immediate view and control aren't available for planning yet, because they may change, and indeed, we can't even see them yet. If you spend your life trying to train yourself to see outside your immediate bubble, you lose track of what is right around you, and by the time you reach what you've been planning, it's too close, you don't know how to deal with it.
So, the fog of life is either constricting, limiting, or it's life. By that I mean you can either look at this little bubble as something to fight against, to strive vainly to break free, or you can take the bubble and realize that it's all you need, whatever else enters your life will be there, and you simply need to learn to control what is right around you.
Life is dangerous, do you realize that? I don't mean to flesh and bones, though that is often the case too, but I mean life. Existing. Our ability to think coherent thoughts (well, maybe that's going too far...) or just our ability to have some sort of sense of reason and purpose for being here. From one second to the next, things change, people say things, and everything makes a difference. It's like driving through fog on a familiar road. You know where everything is, you know what's out there, and you know that sooner or later, you'll encounter it, but that makes very little difference. You can be driving down the road at whatever pace you choose, and as far as you're concerned, even knowing what's there, nothing exists beyond what you can see in your little bubble of space. As you look farther away from you, the fog seems thicker, strives harder to conceal what is not to be known yet. And so your life consists completely of what is right around you. As you come to things down the road you have only the time from when it is revealed by the fog until you reach it to react. No more, no less, even knowing that it may be there. What is outside the bubble that you can see makes no difference.
Life is dangerous, because as much as we want to see beyond the fog, we aren't allowed to. Not by our superiors or anyone else, but by ourselves alone. The parts of life that are beyond our immediate view and control aren't available for planning yet, because they may change, and indeed, we can't even see them yet. If you spend your life trying to train yourself to see outside your immediate bubble, you lose track of what is right around you, and by the time you reach what you've been planning, it's too close, you don't know how to deal with it.
So, the fog of life is either constricting, limiting, or it's life. By that I mean you can either look at this little bubble as something to fight against, to strive vainly to break free, or you can take the bubble and realize that it's all you need, whatever else enters your life will be there, and you simply need to learn to control what is right around you.
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