Is it a requisite of the present to feel unfulfilled? As if your obscurity of reality has not been successful in the proliferation of your deepest ambitions. I feel like with age, responsibility cramps down on your idealism, not in a nihilistic sense, but that with responsibility you learn compromise. It is interesting to reflect back at those crossroads where your aspirations burn the brightest, those years of your life where you feel unlimited by you potential impact. I admire people that are able to find that soft spot of their true ambition, that window between compromise and pure unrestricted idealism. Very humbling to think that there are people still out there who are mavericks, movers and moguls. Pioneers of naked creativity. But if I were to strip the notion of ‘presence’ to its purest connotations, I would say it is but a focal point of reflexion. It is a means of comparing the level of our objectives in life. It is the midway that we use to reflect on our accomplishments. To actually deconstruct that word would propel you down a rabbit hole of platitude after platitude. When it comes down to it, there exists nothing more paradoxical than reflecting on your consciousness right now, as you read this. It is fearful to bring that unconscious autopilot right into your frontal cortex. So aware where you are frightened to realize, the all-too-forgotten understanding, that you exist on autopilot ruled by responsibility and fear; our reaction in making sense of this existential anomaly we find ourselves in.
We often find comfort in justifying awareness, because self-awareness is something that is evolutionary, still something we are at the forefront of. The responsibility of being the few, who are able to self-reflect and use language to legitimize their thoughts, that’s a responsibility we are all afraid of
It is difficult to not end this passage in a cliché, but I feel like true happiness will only come into fruition with complete honesty in two tranches.The first is honesty with your persona; in terms of how you portray yourself to everyday folk; whether that may be an acquaintance at work, or a shopkeeper at your local coffee shop. If you’re able to strip your emotional impulses of influencing you of the day-to-day transactions that you endure, then you have successfully beaten the animalistic nature of your impetuous behavior.The second honest trait is finding that true comfort in yourself. And not the comfort that you feel when everything falls into place and is somehow ‘right’ for some months, but a comfort of being one with your choices and what you’re‘ about’ as a person. The more we resist our true nature, the more misery will ensue; misery being a requisite of a rejection of the realities we face, it is the ultimatum of succumbing to our most rash and self-destructive qualities, pity and wallowing in self deprecation… two of the same.But if you are able to accept your shortcomings, and your respected qualities, through an unbiased unilateral lens; then you’ll reach an understanding through a realization of imperfections. What it means to truly be ‘yourself’; without imposing those shackles of ‘how you should appear’; propelled by the unconscious connotations of labels
Some call it listening to your soul, your heart, and your essence. It’s simpler than that. As ambiguous as it sounds, listen to yourself. The questioning voice on the dichotomy of mind and repertoire. Live in that; make your decisions in that back-and-forth, categorizing your best-possible reactions on value based experiences.Then you will live in what it means to be present; the eternal stream of your consciousness. You manifest your understanding through order and chaos, the beauty and the beast, you’re empathy and your comprise.
Grandeur, Grandeur, Grandeur. The message is simple, no need to be cryptic, but maybe that is the point.
What did Obi-wan say again…. ‘You are the chosen one’… something to think about..
Man is god asleep, God is man awakened.
Kindly,
thefoolwithinyou
the fool within me 