So Much to Want
With so many things in the world to want, to need, to strive for...there seems to be less and less time for people to consider these things that they are chasing so blindly. And this constant craving for more and more, seems to me to leave the world with less and less.
People need so many things to qualify their existence, to justify their lives...why? Is it not enough anymore to be a complete person? I find that so many people who have 'so much', when it comes down to it are just...well..nothing. This, I find to be the greatest tragedy of our age, the loss of soul in the world, the loss of passion and conviction and beliefs...everything has become changeable, exchangeable. Interchangeable and ultimately, lost.
Ignore me, I guess it's just one of those days.
People need so many things to qualify their existence, to justify their lives...why? Is it not enough anymore to be a complete person? I find that so many people who have 'so much', when it comes down to it are just...well..nothing. This, I find to be the greatest tragedy of our age, the loss of soul in the world, the loss of passion and conviction and beliefs...everything has become changeable, exchangeable. Interchangeable and ultimately, lost.
Ignore me, I guess it's just one of those days.
posted by Mashal Peerzada @ 4:12 AM
1 Comments:
At 3:11 PM,
Anonymous said…
Just one of those days? It sounds like enlightenment, at least if you ask Jalalludin Rumi or the Buddha or any of the Zen masters. You could give yourself a little more credit.
I once read an interview with a zen teacher who described one of her own teachers as being '80% function.' Meaning not very interested in inward looking desires, while focussed on the outside world, and to a degree on others. It hit me that the best people I know are all like that.
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