Posted by 8 Miles on December 28, 2003, at 18:04:23
Anyway, was just thinking, what if we were able to take like a "month off" from our everyday life?
I mean, no worry about a job,taking care of a home, fearing things, feeling sick....a trip away from all those things that drive us. Just gone! How much of our "problems" are situational to a time and a place and the feeling of being lost in this abyss?
We generally associate being hospitalized with great fear, because we fell trapped, and fear we may never get out. Do we not feel that very same thing in our little worlds we find ourselves in? Now, some might say "I'd miss my family too much!" I say you would appreciate them more, and cherish them more deeply (even if they can be a pain in the butt). Others might say "I'm too used to my routine, I'd be worse off if I got out of it". I would submit to you that maybe it's that life routine that is causing many of your fears and anxiety. We only "like" the routines, because they provide some order to a world of chaos. It's why so many of us wallow around in our own crap rather than making a change, because at least we "know" our crap, and are afraid of change. A known evil is better than an unknown one. Others might say "What would I do? I'd be bored". I posit that you might never know boredom again. A strange curiosity that many of us have is "What would the world be like w/o me, what if I had never been born"? Again, I believe that would be more of a gift than any of us could ever imagine. You think you are nothing, that you don't matter? How differently we might see things. Unfortanely, I'm sorry, none of us will really ever see what that's like, but I suppose most of us, like George Bailey, would see we really had a wonderful life. Go away for 30 days, and actually LIVE (not exist)for the next 30 years. Hmmmmmm..........where shall we meet?
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