I've been thinking, a dangerous proposition at the best of times . . .
Is like simply what it is? Or, do we have any control over its outcome?
I'm not sure it matters either way, but I would like to know. Can't
help but wonder if it would alter life significantly?! Is everything and
all, cause and effect? Or, not particularly? Do I gain weight because
of what I eat or does it only have to do with my body type? Is the
money I earn in exact proportion to my education and the job at
which I work? Or, is it just the luck of the draw? Are my friends
those I cultivate or does it have to do with geography? I'm trying
to decide because in my elder years, I have this need to nail down
my belief system, as it were. I query, am I following the right path?
Have I reared my children well? Is there some place in particular
where I need to be helping out? How much longer am I going to live
and what should I be doing with my time? Does everyone come to
the end of their days feeling like I do or is it just me? What can I do
to be ready when my time comes? Or, is it simply going to be a
blind date?
just longing to know
would so like to understand
the price of knowledge
~Linda-Dale Jennings
How faithfully can language approximate what life is? What being is? Does language ever only gesture toward that which is? Can our minds only partially comprehend certain aspects as other aspects of reality become obfuscated? Are we compelled to do what we will do in every case because every circumstance that came before shaped us exactly into who we've become? Where is the freedom in that? Is freedom an illusion, or is it paradoxical, or pluralistic? I think if these questions become salient for you, you must live them out as genuinely as possible, as anxiety-inducing as they may be... it is a sign that you have resisted the allure of dogmatism and that you have intellectual depth. Take pleasure in thinking, in being human as much as you can. We will all return to being dust soon enough, or whatever other adumbrations the universe has in store.
~Lui Ferreyra
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