Piercing the depth of the heart
A glow that springs forth
Visible even in the thickest darkness
Every drop, a taste of heaven
Sincerely a soothing sight for sore eyes
A relief in every ravaging storm
A faucet dripping water: the taste of joy
Every word proceeding from merry lips
Maybe my eyes see what a million can’t
Or my imagination exceeds a mere mind
It’s there…
Always there…
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Chronicling LIfe
I groped in the dark, crawling like a few months old baby. How exactly did I find myself here? First, it felt all plush and cool to feel like an imported rug. Then like a quick shift, it felt all marshy, like a muddy pool yet it felt really cold. If it were good, I thought, I’d swim in it. But I kept going. I could feel the wetness all over my robe and hopefully not the mud too. It felt like an adventure and I kept going.
Splash! That was my next hand movement, this time in a pool. A pool of what? A pool of liquid. It is easy to conclude that it’s a pool of water and I really hope it is. How come I’m not afraid? How come I don’t care what in the world I was touching? I was almost giggling aloud with the way I felt. I hope I wasn’t just careless anyway and I wouldn’t get myself into some sort of trouble that I can’t fix because I have no idea what is coming next.
Most humans feel like this crawling few months old baby. We are very adventurous especially when it comes to living. We enjoy living life. We take it as it comes; going through new grounds and putting up with things it’s got to offer. We change levels in different endeavours and it’s all fun. At times or most times, we never even know how we got there in the first place. We just got there and we still keep going – Regardless! We go through stages but to us it’s like an automobile changing gears; all we care about is that we are moving. It looks as though life’s got its hands full with servings as it presents it to us in variable measures or proportions. Yet, it’s not all same for all people!
For some people, life’s servings aren’t entirely favourable. It serves gold, silver yet it mixes it with hot sand that burns the hands. Getting into new grounds, changing levels, moving up stages now seem difficult and one may be a little hesitant because of the fear of the unknown. The question becomes ‘what has life got to offer this time?’ The fear of the unknown as I know it is a life crippler, it’s as good as dying because what exactly is known? Even the things we think we know might not exactly be. For instance, I purpose in my mind to get a breakfast of spring rolls and vegetables. Even though I’ve got it in my kitchen all it takes to prepare the meal, I cannot know that that’s what I’ll eat until I’ve eaten it. What if I get to my kitchen and I decide to add some more ingredients or remove some? Even after eating it, who says that that’s what I ate? Changes could occur anywhere as they do occur every counting second. So what is known at this second is subject to change the next second.
Yet some of us live life or accept life’s servings on another pedestal. But there’s a spirit within people, the inspiration or breath of the Almighty makes them intelligent or gives them understanding. On this premise, groping in the dark isn’t the problem, neither is the different stages, levels or grounds because when we get there, it’s as though we’ve been there before. Somehow, we can navigate our way through such that no one gets hurt. We have an idea of whatever it is our hands feel even if we cant see. It’s a seventh sense kind of thing. What we feel is beyond a force or giggling or I-don’t-care-what-comes because I-can-accept-anything, neither is it the hesitant-kind because I don’t know what’s coming. This, is kind of working with some premonition, living a pre-informed life. We operate like the undercover agents. We can’t explain it- the feeling is all over our hands, our feet, our bones…we’ve got it and that’s all we know! Ultimately, life doesn’t serve us, we chronicle it and what it serves. The question here is: I present before you the unknown, knowing, known and the pre-known. Your choice?
150210 1352hours
Splash! That was my next hand movement, this time in a pool. A pool of what? A pool of liquid. It is easy to conclude that it’s a pool of water and I really hope it is. How come I’m not afraid? How come I don’t care what in the world I was touching? I was almost giggling aloud with the way I felt. I hope I wasn’t just careless anyway and I wouldn’t get myself into some sort of trouble that I can’t fix because I have no idea what is coming next.
Most humans feel like this crawling few months old baby. We are very adventurous especially when it comes to living. We enjoy living life. We take it as it comes; going through new grounds and putting up with things it’s got to offer. We change levels in different endeavours and it’s all fun. At times or most times, we never even know how we got there in the first place. We just got there and we still keep going – Regardless! We go through stages but to us it’s like an automobile changing gears; all we care about is that we are moving. It looks as though life’s got its hands full with servings as it presents it to us in variable measures or proportions. Yet, it’s not all same for all people!
For some people, life’s servings aren’t entirely favourable. It serves gold, silver yet it mixes it with hot sand that burns the hands. Getting into new grounds, changing levels, moving up stages now seem difficult and one may be a little hesitant because of the fear of the unknown. The question becomes ‘what has life got to offer this time?’ The fear of the unknown as I know it is a life crippler, it’s as good as dying because what exactly is known? Even the things we think we know might not exactly be. For instance, I purpose in my mind to get a breakfast of spring rolls and vegetables. Even though I’ve got it in my kitchen all it takes to prepare the meal, I cannot know that that’s what I’ll eat until I’ve eaten it. What if I get to my kitchen and I decide to add some more ingredients or remove some? Even after eating it, who says that that’s what I ate? Changes could occur anywhere as they do occur every counting second. So what is known at this second is subject to change the next second.
Yet some of us live life or accept life’s servings on another pedestal. But there’s a spirit within people, the inspiration or breath of the Almighty makes them intelligent or gives them understanding. On this premise, groping in the dark isn’t the problem, neither is the different stages, levels or grounds because when we get there, it’s as though we’ve been there before. Somehow, we can navigate our way through such that no one gets hurt. We have an idea of whatever it is our hands feel even if we cant see. It’s a seventh sense kind of thing. What we feel is beyond a force or giggling or I-don’t-care-what-comes because I-can-accept-anything, neither is it the hesitant-kind because I don’t know what’s coming. This, is kind of working with some premonition, living a pre-informed life. We operate like the undercover agents. We can’t explain it- the feeling is all over our hands, our feet, our bones…we’ve got it and that’s all we know! Ultimately, life doesn’t serve us, we chronicle it and what it serves. The question here is: I present before you the unknown, knowing, known and the pre-known. Your choice?
150210 1352hours
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