On Joy and Sorrow

In order to be joyous, you must experience sorrow, for without it, there is nothing in comparison. The deeper the cut, the greater the heal, the longer the trip, the greater the time and the deeper the sorrow, the greater the joy. They are the co existence of the each other. One can not happen without the other, and one may not spout without the pester of the other. It takes some dust to have it polished, so when you are sorrow, take a step back and absorb yourself in the joy you have once encountered in order to know your state and remember the polish that is embedded in side you, then heal. When you are joyous, take that same step back, maybe even further, and express the gratitude you have to know what sorrow is, so you can be the opposite. It takes some good to make it hurt, and some bad for satisfaction, so treat them the same, for they explode from the other, and heal one another. Some will say that Joy is better, yet others would say that Sorrow is better, for one may never understand joy, until they overcome sorrow. Take the time to worship both, but never be too caught up in the spell of existence....well because life is wonderful, so let it last.

Bucket List

Write a novel
Travel the world with no agenda
Take a road trip across the country
Paint a mural
Fall in love
Skydive
Make a difference, big or small.
Get a tattoo
Learn to Surf
Sing to a crowd
Grow a garden

On Giving

The only way to give is to give yourself in the most selfless manner ever achievable. To give is to reflect in yourself the meaning of the gift and the meaning of the purpose. One who gives may never get, and one who gets may never give, but that is not alway true. One who gives may get and one who gets may give. This can be interoperated in any single way possible and it is nearly impossible to even write or comprehend, but I will try to explain the art of giving. I believe a gift is not the gift its self, but the intention behind it. The most spectacular gifts are those of anonymous givers, those who feel no need for recognition of their deed. They are the givers we cherish. To give exposure of their identity is a gift to their self within itself, but that becomes a selfish act, opposed of a selfless one. A gift is not a want, but a need. The greatest gifts are the gifts of the needed, not of the desired. It may seem the opposite, but which do you need more, the things you need, or the ones you want? Giving must be selfless with full intention of bettering another soul. If it is anything besides this, one would do better not giving at all.

On Children

Children are the essence of existence and the electricity in our bones that charge the spirits within. They breath their own breath and drum to their own beat. Children come from us, however, do not become us. We become ourselves through growing out of the children we once were. Our mother and fathers are not our mothers and fathers and we are not their children. For those are just labels. Those people, they are the embedded psyche that we have secure in our skin, they are the soul and the balance that is needed in each spirit and the constant reminder of nature and nurture. If they do not exist on this earth any more, it does not mean that the implanted essence is not still apparent, because it is forever evident in the embodiment of their children, for they are children too. Each is a child, and each is a being, perhaps never a mother or father, but always a child. Children are always there, no matter the age of the bone. So...let your child shine, whatever that may mean to you or the child in you.

On Marriage

I believe that two who are married should be forever unified, without feeling attached in every move made and step taken. I think the way "The Prophet" explains marriage perfectly exemplifies how a successful relationship becomes one. There is something special in two people spending the rest of their lives together and to me, at this moment in my life it seems nearly impossible to wake up to the same face every morning. But with the bond that is found between two souls, it can sore. For some this is magnificent, but for others, is seems like a binding potion they regret ever drinking. The key to marriage, or any relationship, or anything in life for that matter, is balance. Two must breath the same air, yet breath separately. This goes without saying that each marriage that fails is not due to lack of balance or lack of love, for that is not always the case. but it's the successful ones that strive off of being together honored as a pair, as well as valued as individuals. 

On Love

Love is almost impossible, so once you catch it, you must be willing to let it go. Perhaps you can't let it go all the way and perhaps you feel the passionate need to hold it forever, and perhaps you may be able to throw if far, but in most cases remember that perhaps, it will tear your insides, or in others, completely mend them back together. In complete suffrage, maybe love is the only way to build back strength and hope, but in complete happiness, love will tear the newly built walls back down to the core of existence. Love will be the reasons for every sense. When you see you love, a love not in your self, not in another, but in somebody else, you feel it. When you touch love, perhaps the person you are loving, you get feelings of the darkness you never want to return too, and the feelings of the light that you never want to fade. When you taste love, the sensations of passion and the sensations of desire overwhelm the emotions of power and the emotions of strength, for weakness fulfills your bones. When you hear love, perhaps the literal word or a whisper of imagination, is seems as a facade that burst the bubble of reality and forces itself upon your heart, and upon your soul. When you feel love, in what ever sense, you know. You know how you melt into the tender pain and the worshiped desires, the willingness to flee and the willingness to bleed the emotions felt, the need to give thanks and the need to be welcomed, the need to be needed and utterly absorbed with gratitude; while sparked in the reality of separation and prayer, the reality of ecstasy, and reality of whats real. 

    

Prompt #18

It is better to do your own duty 

badly, then to perfectly do 

another's; you are safe from harm 

when you do what you should be doing. 

I believe that each person is destined to do what they must. Each soul is responsible for doing what they feel the need to do in order to unveil what they feel is needed. In order to achieve greatness, in what ever sense that may mean to the individual, one must do their own duty. The out come of the action is not important, because only the intention of the deed, the process of the deed and the personal accomplishment of the deed is relevant to the actual greatness achieved. As the Gita says, it is better to do your own duty badly, and to do another's with no flaws. The process of following the rules or your own morals is forever more powerful than doing another being's, even if your actions are an outcome of poor results.