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1) What Is the Meaning of Life?: “....It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset." – Crowfoot The meaning of life is the simple moments of sharing with loved ones. It’s being reborn seeing the world through the eyes of your child and listening. It’s laughter and kind smiles. It’s not judging others. It is truly seeing how connected we are to everything. I believe that leading a meaningful life, trying to deeply connect with others to the point of part of you is them & vice versa is a very real understanding of reincarnation and ever-lasting life. When I shuffle this mortal coil if something in the soul of my loved one’s is richer because of me, and has had an impact on them, then those loved ones will be exposing some small beautiful aspect of me in those they connect meaningfully to in the future…..Even though I have never met those new persons they encounter. And even if you’re an atheist that is a very tangible form of existence beyond death that is I believe is more important than the semantics of flowing robes, growing wings from one’s back to travel faster down gold bricked streets. Although no shaving seems like a plus. I don’t believe in the semantics and dogma of any religion. I believe in understanding & connecting with the philosophy of the region. If you make efforts to continue to fall deeper in love with life and understand the importance of sharing that’s the real deal. Like the song says, “love is all you need.” “All that is not given is lost.” Hasari Pal 2) Yes, I see. And if you are wrong? How do you cope with that possibility? I lost my fear of death a long time ago. Everything I am and have experienced completes me with the understanding that my energies are put on enriching and experiencing every minute of every day. Everyone is both wrong and right about how they see everything. If we are happy in our sense of “right reason” behind our actions and put our passions into that, then we can embrace each mystery that unfolds before us in the future, be open to change, and feel comfort in the knowledge that there is always a greater understanding…. A larger perspective. I don’t seek to justify or confirm my beliefs. I don’t need to be right. I seek that forward focus that is always open for, and embracing “possibility” with my whole heart, which I can incorporate into the existing infrastructure of my house. In fact I believe the art is in how different all the houses in my neighborhood are. You a Buddhist Christian Blue……. My shutters green. 3) Please complete the following: My parents dreamed that when I grew up I would: With all the strange fascinations and changes I went through as a child I believe my parents mainly dreamed and prayed I would be a heterosexual who did not worship the devil. So if I had a job I could support myself and give them a grandchild, everything else was gravy. They called the Baptist minister on me to have a sit down on more than a few occasions to question me, and thanks be to the glory of Satan I was able to fool them all. Hahahahahahhahahahahha (a little levity there). 4) Oh? But instead you? 5) But what you truly want to do is? Because? I’ll still working on what I want to be when I grow up actually. I’d love to have a 9-5 job that pays the bills without worry that I actually loved doing. The Arts Commission turned me down for a job I really wanted. I certainly enjoy my hobbies a lot. I suppose if I could do well financially being the Crossroads Director, painting abstract art and trying to turn people onto arts & music in Mississippi that would be cool. I live for my life after M-F, 8-5 p.m. Although I am able to answer 10 points of enquires from the comfort of my M-F office. So send me your enquiries. I am currently seeking the classified ad as a travel guide for friends and the U.N. Ambassador for some culturally exotic county. I like to relate to people but don’t really want to be their psychologist, save their soul, be an impersonal sociologist removed from it all, nor do I want to be any sort of politician. I like making a nice mixed music CD. I enjoy writing, genealogy, art, music, good conversation and armchair philosophizing. It would be cool to own/manage the Pix/Capri and help book all the movies for Crossroads, music I like….having a public space for art, music, films, books, poetry, museum curator would be cool. All those sorts of things. 6) ... and Love is? Like I put on my 50 things to do before I die…. I want to be adored, objectified & apparently sought after by one woman who's passionately into my mojo. I’ve adored unrequited by measure and wait for the day when someone with their whole heart falls head over hills for me. And passionately enjoys me as much as them. Someone willing to frolic, bathe and share a home in the silly cheese that is my romantic nature. The Beatles said “Love is The Answer.” I continue to search for my question. 7) So you are most Happy when? I like Sam’s answer on this one……”Acting from, for, and on behalf of Love.” Doing all the meaning of life stuff mentioned in question one, filled in with the occupation of question 4 and the love on question 6…..all synchronized, gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict. 8) That sounds quite splendid. But you are afraid that? I certainly have not mastered the art of relationships. It seems that people are most loved when they are loved FOR their flaws and not in spite of them. Most times a best friend sounds more attainable than a “soulmate.” It’s been my experience that when the going gets tough or when things naturally change in some way (which of course always happens) many ladies go in search of fresher fruit. No one wants their fruitiness to get stale. 9) Yes, most of us are. Even so, you know you Belong when? When the air is a touch crisper, the trees a little greener and there is much laughter and quiet sharing. In the movie “After Life” each person after death has to choose the moment they want to live in forever. That perfect moment of everything, all at once, forever. www.revolvingpaintdream.com/afterlife 10) and God? Reincarnation, enlightenment, Nirvana and two people embracing long. God is everything. It’s the something more than the sum of our parts. There is order. di•vin•i•ty -–noun, plural -ties. 1. the quality of being divine What do I divine as something greater than possibility? I suppose I prefer a faith in the knowable pursuit of possibility. I don’t believe God is a single minded sentient being with human characteristics and traits. I don’t believe the universe was willed into being by a single minded force of creation. Our perception of Creation itself is a closer idea of what God is, I believe. A verb, a thing, a mass of action and reaction that does not think, but knows. I’m always happy to discuss any of these ponderings on any occasion. "When you expect flutes, its
whistles. When you expect whistles it
flutes".
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