"Are you afraid you're missing out, that everything good is happening somewhere else? With nobody in your bed, the night's hard to get through..." - Brand New
The conscious experience we all share represents just one version of "actual reality," that is, reality as it truly exists before it is filtered, interpreted and otherwise modified and changed to become more acceptable to each and every one of us. We all do this at an unconscious level, true story. Of course, each of us has his/her own version of reality which, when compared/compiled with that of everyone else, falls into its appropriate place along the spectrum which can be viewed as a Bell Curve (see above).
Obviously, those of us who are considered "crazy," "weird," or otherwise posses a conscious, waking reality that is simply different of uncommon vs. that of the average person are represented by either end of the line forming the curve.
"Hey Nerd-Boy/Human Lawn Dart, what does all of this have to do with anything?"
I'm glad you asked, heckler from back in the reference section of the library!
We can change (ie. improve) our living, waking reality! Thinking about problems, both past, present and future, keeps us from living in the now or in the moment. By removing ourselves from the present with thinking that draws upon negative energy from other "problems" (there are no problems, only differing events that are up to us to interpret!), we are limiting the good that we can experience.
Worrying about possessions, money and things instead of each other is why this impersonal and hardly functional society we live in is the way it is. We constantly put ourselves above anything and everything that surrounds us... Perhaps it is something innate and common to us all, a survival mechanism designed to help us filter out unpleasant realities, perhaps not.
My point is that all we really have in life that can give back to us what we give/put in to it is each other, other people, fellow humans. I am as guilty as anyone of the aforementioned offenses-- I get just as caught up in focusing on myself as anyone else does (which explains why my roommate and the "wall squirrel" are still adjacent to each other most nights and weekends).
With that said, I want to change.
"Do or do not, there is no try!" -Yoda
Good point, Yoda, and I WILL change.
If you live a lie, you become a lie. Nothing in worse than betraying one's own heart. Hell, life lasts as long as a sprint if you're lucky and finding someone who runs it the same way and speed as yourself is a rarity, so you owe it to yourself to do everything possible (and even some things you might not initially believe are possible) to make that happen, to make that YOUR reality!
"Nirvana is to live the ordinary life so alert, so full of consciousness, so full of light, that everything becomes luminous." - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Or, if that is a little too much to wrap your head around, how about one of my favorites?
"One love, one heart- let's get together and feel alright" - Bob Marley
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