*12.13.2001 - 10:40 p.m.*

This was posted to the aglami newsgroup, and I thought it was worth posting here. Thanks Dave!

There's A Problem With Our Lives:

Born
Spend youth getting educated
get job
Marry
Have children
Seek advancement in job
Try to achieve as much as possible
Retire
Die

Is that all there is too our lives? Is there no more, nothing else? Our lives our transient, quick as a lightning strike, over before we know. So we try to pack everything into them, all the time.

We base our lives around physichal things. The money were, earning, our credit card bills, whats on TV, our desire for a larger house. Doing. Doing things all the time. But we are human Beings. So why is it that not for a second can we cease doing, and start being?

Take a look at your life. Are you living your life, or is it living you? Do you even know who you are? You are a product of the physichal things around you, we all are. We base the meaning of our lives on physichal things, somehow we have got it into our heads that they matter. But they are transient. Anyhting physihcal comes and goes.

So take away all the physichal things that change th eperson you are, and what are you left with. The real you. The person inside your head, the stranger you dont even know yourself, they have been there since birth, trying to make you see. But you dont listen, no-one does.

So what happens when you die, and all the physichal is stripped from you? What are you going to do when you are lying somewhere, dying, knowing that soon everything you once based you life around is going to be stripped from you. Will you fear it? Or will you embrace it.

People fear death and put it to the backs of their minds. THey constantly do things, just so that they dont have to confront these fears, and talk to the stranger inside their heads.

My challenge to you is to let it go. Let all the physichal go. It doesnt matter, it is transitory. Let all the pain go, that also doesnt matter, it is transitory. Why seek to better your suroundings all through youre life. Who knows, it mind end tomorrow. Why not be content with what you have.

Let it all go. Fear, pain, hatred, physichality, sterotyping, anything else you can think of that is transitory. Basically everyhting. let it all go. And have a talk to the stranger inside your head.

I wish I could do a better job of explaining what I mean.

Oh well.