Wow.
I talk of this soul a lot, though to be honest right now... I feel like I could not be further from it. Some never think that there lies a journey beyond there surface realm, their everyday realities. Though, I know better.. it has been introduced and that is inside of me.. it's strange how such a powerful concept, something so different from the concepts we grew up believing or atleast being taught to believe can affect you.. it really pins down on a familiar feeling, something that is within you and when you feel it.. you almost sense how important it is to allow that feeling to grow. It is a higher state... awakening. Some people can live their whole life's in a trance state.. waking sleep. You are fully functionable, alert, you go about your day when you wake up in the morning... but that is not when you wake up, the meaning of life is not found simply by waking up in the morning and putting on your first pot of coffee with many pots to follow throughout the day as you try to uplift yourself into the peak state of alertness... that is the state you so desire but even when you have reached it you still have a haze, a fuzzy screen that blinds the full range of vision you should be able to see. It is there, but you must activate it ... feed it... nuture it. It is a journey, something that never ends once you've began and once you are aware. It starts to speak to you in everything. Perhaps people spend their whole life's in a sleeping state is because it is rare that you ever see anyone who is fully awakened. When everything around you is trying so badly to put you in this haze, to make you blind and weaken your bodies and engulf you with matieralistic worries and circus pony dreams that serve as distrations from the real thing ... it is no longer we have lost it all in this smog. You can be the eldest person within your community and others may adore you and reall admire the miracle of old age, everyone states that life seems to pass by so quickly and you better live in the moment before it is gone. But whose life is it to determine how long they live... yet many are so readily giving it away, wishing it away, wasting it away. Living in the moment means doing the same exact things everyday. Death should come once you've given all that you can, when you've seen and tasted and felt everything you have wanted and you've understood it's place and you have understood it's significance and you have connected with it's purpose. Once your journey has been reached and you find contentment with coming to an end or pursuing the next phase and preceeed to carry on.. not in your physical body and no longer in contact with all that you've known (earth) and move beyond it into a great and infinite amount of space. You may not be "free" as you know it. But it never should have been about freedom in the first place. Everyone knows that this Earth and especially life as we know it will not last forever (wish as we may), there will come a time when this Earth will no longer be capable of supporting our particular life form and if we're lucky there will be a mutation that allows for life to continue on. Many people sit around pending doom, "You have to live today like it might be your last"... sadly this is true. But I think, why anticipate the destruction of the Earth and the end to us all... caused by nature or otherwise? We should have spent our entire life's preparing and not fearing but rather... embracing that time. For it is not something to fear, it is only natural. How naive humankind must be to live in a way that honestly feels that it is at it's last, and final stage of mutations. Perfection. And made up in flaws, from head to toes.