Evading Sanity - by From The Depths

Is there any meaning to life or is the meaning of life what we make it? At times I ponder this question even though I know I won’t find the answer just sitting there thinking about it. I don’t even think I’ll find the answer if I try. The only way I think anyone could possibly find the answer to that question is to just live and let it come to you. When you try to look for an answer or solution to a question that abstract you are bound to see them everywhere- even if they are wrong.

Generally speaking, if a person looks for something to hard for too long their journey will either end up in disappointment or they will find an answer merely because people tend to see what they want to see. The question of the meaning to life is one no one will ever be able to find an answer that fits each and every person in this world or even a small portion of it. I believe the answer to this question must be answered by each and every one of us individually. We can’t depend on others to answer it for us since no one’s life and their experiences throughout it are the same.

The closest thing to an answer I have is to just do what makes you happy. What makes you happy may be helping someone else, finding that one person you can spend the rest of your life with, being able to wake up each morning and look forward to going to work, and the list goes on. To others the meaning of life may seem to be experiencing all they can- good or bad. Yet to another it may be success. There is one question remains after ‘discovering’ any of the answers. Are the things you are doing to make you and your life ‘meaningful’ really worth it?

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Deceptive Dreams

December 20th 2006 03:07

Dreams are a constant force in the supernatural progression of people and their beliefs. Ever since the first person began to think their dreams were something extraordinary, something mystical, they have been a constant factor for people to define themselves. In the modern era dreams are no longer as significant in people’s lives as they were throughout human history, but to some they still are very meaningful. To some dreams are powerful forces foretelling future events wither in detail or on some abstract level. To others they are messages of the subconscious mind telling of our most inner fears, desires, and hopes. Others believe they are merely subconscious portraits of a person’s imagination.

I am not past believing that dreams are of some significance in a person’s life. I do believe that they can help a person find out more about who they really are. I admit having been startled on several occasions of the almost perfect symmetry between my dreams and actual life. Most of the time I attribute to lack of clear memory of what the dream actually was and a desire to have something that separates me from what is average. A few instances when this has happened I began to plan to write doing my dreams as they happened, a dream journal of sort, but at the times I actually remember what I had dreamed I am too tired and lazy to follow through. There is one recent dream I had that is still vivid in my memory:

Standing in the middle of a field with a cluster of trees to one side and stacks of giant hay bails on the other, I happen to look up at the sky. Instead of seeing a blue sky with scattered puffy clouds I see a sky of a radiating magenta color with a bluish background. It is indescribable in any other words but those. I could have stared at that extraordinary site for hours but out of nowhere I feel a hand grab my shoulder. I quickly turn to see a beautiful woman with ash brown hair and eyes colored with a mix of gray, brown, and blue.

“Hurry, they’re coming,” she says as she points into the trees. I look in that direction and see a group of four running full speed at us. I momentarily freeze trying to figure out were I am at and what is going on only to be melted by the woman tugging on the front of my shirt.

We run over and start climbing up the stacks of hay bails (these were no ordinary hay bails; they were about the height of a semi trailer and about half the length at smallest). As we near the top of the stack I look back to see our pursuers halfway across the field, almost exactly in the spot we were previously standing. They suddenly stop, turn, and run the other way. Briefly I try to figure out their action only to see nothing else but Mammoths stampeding through the field. They were huge and that’s an understatement. They made the elephants at a carnival look like dwarfs.

Once again I am drawn out of my gaze by my companion. We finish scaling the stacks and start running across the top of the pile to ensure our escape. The next thing I know we hit a soft spot in the bails and fall into the stacks. The next thing I know we are standing in a boxed room, no larger than a walk in closet, with no windows or doors to escape from. The room is empty besides my partner and I and a strange, shimmering blue glow in one of the corners.

We stay in the room not knowing what to do next. I even try to walk into the blue glow assuming that was our point of entrance, but nothing happens. Hour seem to pass until our pursuers enter through the glow. The first one through the light draws a knife from his hip and lunges at me. I quickly dodge the initial strike…

That was when I woke up. I think the only reason I am able to remember this dream so vividly is that it was so bizarre compared to my normal dreams that I couldn’t get it out of my head all day. I still can’t rationalize where this dream come and don’t really think I need to. All I can say about it is that if that happens to be a future prediction some things are going to radically change in the world.

Only once before had I had a dream that remained so vividly in my mind. When I was a child I had reoccurring dreams of giant lions chasing me through the local mall. I always ended up being saved by a family member right outside of KB toys for some reason though.

Some people think that everything in a dream stands for something. I don’t know enough about dream interpretation to even ponder what some of mine may stand for, but I don’t think it would matter too much anyway. From what I do understand about interpreting dreams is that most parts of a dream are symbolism which have a tendency to be unique to a person and/or culture.

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The Great Unknown

December 18th 2006 02:52

Life is every persons great unknown. Tomorrow can bring something completely different to a person’s life. The only thing that obstructs this possibility is whether a person chooses to embrace it or ignore it. Everyone can think back in his or her life and remember one decision they have made that would have changed who they are, what they are, completely. They can think back and realize that a bad judgment in the past created the hell they call their life. They might realize that good judgment lead them doing a path that gave them everything they ever dreamed of. Only if it were that simple.

Although one decision can start a downward spiral in a person’s life, it is the person’s choice to let the original decision repeat itself over and over again perpetuating the spiral. One right choice can momentarily stop the cycle. Continued right choices can reverse in all together. Off course that to is too simple.

External forces can play into everyone’s life. It may be a greed filled employer who pays his employees lint. Or a random act of kindness directed at a person. No action is too large or too small to affect another’s life. The external variables in life that can cause drastic changes in a person’s ability are the people they surround themselves with. Whether they want the others around or not, they are there and there is nothing one can do to change it. Well other than complete isolation, but that is something that most try to avid even momentarily. By nature every person is a social creature.

A brief examination of everyone’s greater unknown brings more things into the picture than ever thought of in the first place. No one can truly see what the future has to hold for them. They may be able to take an educated guess at what might come to be, but there is always something else there that a person is unable to see which has even a greater say in the outcome. No one can predict the actions of another no matter how well you think you know that person. No one can fully predict the actions they themselves will take since they can’t see all the factors that motivate them. Life is unpredictable. Life is the great unknown.

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