Apr 29, 2013 22:48
the problem with waking up a little bit is that it can be indistinguishable from depression. they both have a tendency to see the world as it is, and that isn't always so good.
the world is seen with its discontinuities. its less than perfect smoothness. and you know there is no grace, just blind luck.
I saw a teeshirt today that said"no king, no god, no mercy." Just blind luck.
And yet there is the knowledge in that awakeness that if waking up and being done is possible then whatever there is in this world to navigate can be.
this younger generation -- as represent by the teeshirt -- gets some thing of this partially awake problem. They have been fed irony all of their lives ...