Process of Life
Moments past,
Take with it future hope,
Leave behind present guilt,
Chaining you to your judgement.
But each moment is renewed,
Like the passage of a stream,
The present need not be tied to the past,
As a new set of eyes or ears or a new breath or thought can unchain the present from what has been.
Past judgements left in the past,
The now, gives birth to new possibilities,
Which open new paths,
As the present allows for you to be born again.
Ambitious desires chained,
so balance can be had,
in harmony, life is lived,
or so that’s what is purposed.
The golden mean,
not too hot, not too cold,
harmonizing the ebb and flow of life,
and thus, you may find peace and happiness.
But there is a pull to go over,
to commit yourself to one thing, fully
surrender to the disharmony,
to look at the edge and knowingly step over,
peace and happiness may lack,
but life is experienced, vividly,
the ebb and flow of good and bad,
open to high passions of pain and pleasure,
higher the threshold of pain, equally higher the pleasure,
instead of the mild which comes with balance,
so, the aim changes,
from the mean to the extreme,
unchained ambition,
balance a thought for later life.
Impulsive,
following the first thought,
the first desire,
the first pleasure.
Confused,
thinking that is what you are thinking,
that is what you want,
that is what you need.
Man being god,
he like the all-knowing sits above and watches,
observes the animals going about their business,
animals that are full of thought, desires, and pleasures,
who are constantly acting on impulses,
but He watches and observes,
You watch and observe,
the real you isn’t the first to act.
Breathing in heavenly air,
shrouded in stillness,
clear sight, clear mind,
choosing what you act upon,
the choice is godlike,
the choice is man,
the choice is you.
Eyes only for the bad leaves a darkened heart,
seeing, watching, consuming all that is wrong.
Eyes only for the good leave an ignorant heart,
overlooking, bypassing, ignoring the realities of life.
To neither be dark or ignorant,
to neither be cynical or idealistic,
rather, be aware of the self which is all of that and more,
through awareness, decency follows.
Eyes turned inwards,
peering into the shadowy pockets within as orbs of light shine and dim,
eyes outwards looking into the mirror,
the reflection shows all of mankind,
the shadow and light within mirrors all of mankind.
Consume enough hate and you’ll become hateful,
consume enough fear and you’ll become fearful,
consume enough goodness and you’ll become good,
consume enough knowledge and you’ll become intelligent.
Reflect on the difference and you’ll become different,
reflect on the similarities and you’ll become similar,
reflect on yourself and you’ll be one with mankind.
As the world changes with technology, so does the concept of self,
the real you is pushed to the background,
replaced by a digital self which is fixed and filtered,
shared only with ideal proportions which match what you wish you looked like,
encouraging the mind to imagine a different you,
a you whose edges have been buffed out,
whose nose has been fixed,
with touched up smiles,
to match the fake projection of yourself.
All for the likes,
for the fake love, self or otherwise,
the false care,
the double-tap of insecurity,
the lack of likes makes self-loathing thoughts,
the abundance of likes reinforces the fake self,
the self is driven by ego to be liked,
the self which overshadows the real you,
the real self which craves disconnection,
so it can connect with itself, with you.
But the buzzing phones,
the bright screen,
the technology to connect,
keeps the self from connecting,
and with time,
it creates a hollow self,
but the heart notifications hit like a heroin needle,
the instant dosage of gratification,
and for that moment,
this thing, this self on the web, is happy,
so are you,
as you evolve into this blend of muscles, tendons, blood, zeros and ones, wavelengths, and coding formula.
Learned Living 