One of my favorite
fantasies that I came up with while I was on my way through Arkansas came from
what I observed: that people in America are especially addicted to their HOUSES
and their JOBS and their CARS. Therefore, I have a theory which states that all
men are really just going through a series of BUBBLES: they spend just a little
less than 2/3 of their time in their 1st BUBBLE, in the morning hop into their
2nd BUBBLE (after they have walked for a minute out to their car). Then they
ride this BUBBLE to their 3rd BUBBLE, stepping out of their car and walking out
of doors to their work building, do their work in the 3rd BUBBLE for 8 hours,
walk back to their car (passing through the out of doors for a minute), and
ride in this BUBBLE all the way back HOME (which was of course the 1st BUBBLE),
walk to their front door, through the out of doors, enter their 1st BUBBLE,
only to say hi to their families, eat their dinners, and go to sleep, and
REPEAT THE WHOLE PROCESS again, tomorrow.
People are isolated
from each other. We are all really one great big human family. Houses are
illusions. Walls might as well just be invisible; we are all like really kind
of just out here, on the land, living- living under the same moon, sun, &
stars, sharing the same air, trees, resources, water, earth, and each other...
We are too isolated from one another.
We need more time
spent out of doors, more traveling!
We alienate each
other, ostracize the other, we forget that we are all one big human family. We
hold each other off with a ten-foot-pole, protecting ourselves and our families
and our houses with guns and keeping fear in our hearts toward the others who surround
us on all sides, who are actually
inseparable from us, and on whom we actually depend, with whom we are
connected in ways that few can fully comprehend.
We have too much of
an 'enemy' mindset. Instead surrender, soften, acquiesce, yield! Surrender to
the fact that we all really need each other, that we are all more alike to each other than we knew, that we're all in the same boat, living
out the same dream. No one is a total criminal, just as no one is a god!
Balance, balance.
Few things are perfect, and yet we're all striving for
perfection. It takes time, but we'll get there…
Nothing is
inconsequential. Everything has an effect. Everything matters. Everything is
leading into a better or worse future. We must TRY, or else there
is no HOPE.
Remember, nothing is too hard or too easy; it's all just MEDIUM.
Everything is MEDIUM.
MEDIUM.
MEDIUM.
MEDIUM.
MEDIUM.
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