Friday, February 27, 2009

The Landscape of our Lives

Imagine you are the Earth, as a whole.

Now imagine you are a sattelite in space, looking down upon the Earth (you).

You can see all of the Mountain Ranges, and the deep blue of the Oceans.

The cuts and crevices left by time, nature, circumstance.


Life is like that. People are like that.


We all have our highest peaks of accomplishments, and the depths of our unknown souls.

The scars left from years of neglect, avoidance, and pure dumb luck.

We have have the wrinkles of time that has marched across our skin.

We spend too many years, and too much money on things like therapy, skin cream, and barely necessary prescription drugs, often to "fix" things we could have prevented.

We covet the trophys we have won, the positions we hold, the person we like to think we are.
We cling to delusions that do not serve us well.
We want to rationalize decisions by using "prettier" words. Chocolate covered shit, is still shit.


Life is like that. The Earth is like that.


If we only gave the Earth the attention and respect we give our own vanity, well, you can figure it out.

And by the way, this is calling out me also, as it is never "all about" any one. It is all about
Everyone.

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