Originally Posted by Dream of the iris
??If you don't know what you are on all levels, and have no clue what you are standing up for or against, then sit down. Does the farmer care if the cattle get together and moo at him in a group, shouting that the pen is theirs and not his, and that he doesn't own them? Who is justified and what the hell are the cattle thinking? Do they really want to stand up and claim the pen of their imprisonment and holding until demise as theirs? Do you want to fight to keep the walls that contain you? Is that what the struggle and shouting is all about? Is it necessary? If they don't own you, then prove it and walk. Unplug and start living. A cow standing up in a pen to say he is free is a jack ass.?
We??ve convinced ourselves that we are limited. We think we are small when in fact we are very large. Life is a sweet game and we all take it so seriously. We play these games, all of us. It??s a role playing game and we are damned good at it. I am so and so, this is my job, I make this amount of money each year. What school did you go to? It??s funny if you take a step back and really observe this process. We all do it. Most of us anyway. We play our roles good and we often forget that we are playing and not actually living. If you take a step back and observe this, you will see the humor in it all. Who decided this was the way life should be? Go to school, get a job, maybe save enough for retirement, die, repeat. Sounds a little bit like prison, doesn??t it? Regulated schedule, routine. A ??prison without walls?. That??s what we are in. Is this what we signed up for when we came here? To live only for the sake of surviving and to have a few moments here and there of peace and true happiness? Well, at least I get those two weeks off next summer. Something to look forward to. I guess right now kinda sucks, though. Where??s the joy in life? The upliftment? The peace for god??s sake! Who decided it was going to be this way?
We live, learn ??facts? maybe marry and have kids who do the same thing and make the same mistakes that we did and for what? What is this that we are striving for? We are striving for something, right? ??Well, you see? says the scientist, ??we??re trying to figure out why we are here?. OK, so what have you got so far? ??I don??t know, we ran out of funding. Seems that question is pretty much pointless?. That question is on an individual basis. To find it out, you have to look inward. Do you need lab equipment and millions of dollars to discover something you already know? Seems ridiculous, but thus is the state of mankind. We all have forgotten something very important. Something that will save us. And that is so simple, you wouldn??t believe what it is. We have forgotten ourselves. Yes, that??s right. You have forgotten who You are. You have left yourself behind and some of you are saying, ??I want it back, show me the road to take?. Yet the crust in front of the eyes is so thick, you cannot see. How do you expect to see that part of yourself if you are stuck in your role as ??Me, my job, my life, my problems, mine?. This prison sucks, doesn??t? How do we break out? I don??t know. Let me know if you do.
Such limited view we have. Our boundaries keep us locked, our fears stop us from ever going beyond something. It takes a courageous soul to venture past what is comfortable. But, that??s how things get done. Are you content living solely to survive? Stand up and live if you are not! But the question remains. How do we stand up? How do we live? Am I not living? If you are content where you are, then that's fine. If you want more, then get more. Nothing is ever limited. Nothing.