Does the Television have something deeper to communicate with us than just two hour movies? who is in charge of what we see on the TV? can I be in charge of the TV? Can I be the one creating all of the stories that we get told.
I've been really thinking about the idea of silence. The idea of sound. We eat food to survive, that energy gets transformed into sound when I use my voice. Sound is a physical thing that I create that changes the world. What if I stopped making sound? What if I just listened?
A friend of mine once told me to challenge my own ability to hold still and silent. The only thing that we do when we hear silence is we run. We run away from silence by looking for sound. Is it possible to see past the silence? Can we look every direction and see past the sounds of the world? I've been thinking about this so much recently that it almost hurts me. There is no fun in understanding everything. Once we finally teach ourselves to be silent enough to really hear other people it takes the joy out of life. There is something twisted about being a person who can only absorb sound, but never sends sound out. The idea is that, once you finally do decide that you're ready to create sound will the sound you create make a difference?
I offer this to my generation. Challenge me. I vow to try and make the rest of my days as silent as possible. I will use everything in my intellectual toolkit to communicate with other, without ever making a sound. I bet I can live a life that is more silent than yours. One day I'll smoke a blunt with all the people who proved that they can be more silent than me. know this. The longer the silence, the deeper the pain. The deeper the pain, the longer the science. The happier the silence is the more love that fills your life.
Work means that we get less time to live in our families, the closest community we have around us in life, and more time with our co-workers, the community we don't choose, but still have around us. My first challenge is to choose to love every single one of your co-workers and to try and treat them like family. When everyone at work feels like a family, their productivity will increate dramatically.
There is lots of pain in loosing your mind. Those who choose to start writing are those with the courage enough to admit they are walking closer to death everyday. Hopefully in writing down how I feel and think today, maybe I can find the pieces of myself that I'd thought were gone.
words are the power to fool everyone around us. The stages of grief can lead a person through the power of these words. The grips of depression can weave into us the power of these words. facing death can jolt us with the power of these words. Chasing after sin will twist the power of these words.
The way it works is that you either have to work with the people on your level as a family. A family that spends holidays together. A family that yells at each other. A family that grows with each other. If you cannot pull this off, you have to kill them. There is no more room on our planet. The oldest and wisest people have been shifting their gaze towards this generation. Once you see the world as numbers, you now understand the catastrophe that we live in. The question that it comes down to is, who gets what? and who gets to stay? The most hospitable, generous, powerful, and wisest of us will stay. The world will become evil. Then it again will become balanced. All will face what it truly means to be human. Some people have finally been waking up to this darkness. I will see you soon, I hope you find peace in your silence. For those unwilling to control yourself, I wish you far travels on your way. May the gift of those watching take you as far as your minds can dream. People either fear sound, or they master it. I pray it will no longer haunt you and that you can find peace in our futures.
