Pre-shocks
Uncertainty is what confounds the best-laid plans and upsets the most flat-lining situations being taken for granted. How do you act when someone or something you care about has something serious happen?
As momentarily shocked as I felt at the prospect of having something serious occur with a close friend last night, and finding out he's okay now - it also becomes clear not just how tenuous things are, but the beauty that arises and occurs despite, or maybe because of, this tenuousness; this fragility. If things were as stable as most people would like to hope, the things that we love or the things that torture us would stay and endure, stably, and statically - unchangingly. The fragility of life is what makes sure we not only don't take things for granted, but learn to enjoy them for what they are while they're here.
With all that said, my friend and teacher LaRoi is in the hospital getting his insides mangled, but otherwise alright. He'd probably kick my ass if I didn't say something deep about this time, so here you go - now I'm going to finish my 40.
As momentarily shocked as I felt at the prospect of having something serious occur with a close friend last night, and finding out he's okay now - it also becomes clear not just how tenuous things are, but the beauty that arises and occurs despite, or maybe because of, this tenuousness; this fragility. If things were as stable as most people would like to hope, the things that we love or the things that torture us would stay and endure, stably, and statically - unchangingly. The fragility of life is what makes sure we not only don't take things for granted, but learn to enjoy them for what they are while they're here.
With all that said, my friend and teacher LaRoi is in the hospital getting his insides mangled, but otherwise alright. He'd probably kick my ass if I didn't say something deep about this time, so here you go - now I'm going to finish my 40.