steps:

Nov 08, 2005 23:19

1.Think. Just consider what has happened. This is the past. Consider what will happen. This is the future. Consider where you are sitting and the sounds of your surroundings.
2.Think about the absurdity of the arguments of your foes. Think about the absurdity of your whole society, of your language, of the structure of the Earth, of the Universe and of the mind-boggling magnitude of everything.
3.Think about how infinitesimally small you become before the nearly infinite and impossible. Attempt to calculate the probability of the things you love even existing within all possibilities.
4.Think about beauty. And purpose.
5.Consider again the arguments of your foes: the irritation you felt with the waiter at breakfast, the legislators in congress, the many faults within yourself.
6.Just giggle.
7.Think about each person striving and struggling and burning over money and relationships and the quiet conflicts of their minds.
8.Begin to laugh.
9.Begin to laugh hysterically.
10.Laugh until you are weeping, madly, angrily, sorrowfully, and you cannot remember even where you are or what has happened.
11.Laugh until you cannot move; laugh until your friends stare; laugh until you worry at your own passion.
12.Laugh until you remember. Until the absurd becomes comical, until you feel sorry for your foes, until the white of the star matches the white of the eye.
13.Laugh until you forget. Until you tumble, inexorably, into the tangled tunnels of sleep.
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