08-31-2018, 12:00 AM
All that aside, how would you feel if your state of stillness, of not doing, was all there was in your future? What if the anticipated knock at your door never comes? Knowing there's a yellow brick road, but that you lack the red glitter heels to take you there? For how long would you search for the heels, how long would you sail the ocean blue in hopes of discovering treasures from a far and distant land?
What if the point of living isn't to climb a materialistic ladder, to accrue ridiculous amounts of tonal wealth, or become a hoarder of power. Those things can be nice, sure. Instead, how nice would it be to be free of such limiting desires. To live simply and to love thyself.
Happiness isn't an external circumstance.
So I often ponder over how do we know we made it? When we stop letting a desire consume us we are free.
Your eyes will heal. But if they don't, you would adapt. Would you miss vision? Probably. Once you see things, you can't unsee them. Vision is powerful in that way.
What if the point of living isn't to climb a materialistic ladder, to accrue ridiculous amounts of tonal wealth, or become a hoarder of power. Those things can be nice, sure. Instead, how nice would it be to be free of such limiting desires. To live simply and to love thyself.
Happiness isn't an external circumstance.
So I often ponder over how do we know we made it? When we stop letting a desire consume us we are free.
Your eyes will heal. But if they don't, you would adapt. Would you miss vision? Probably. Once you see things, you can't unsee them. Vision is powerful in that way.