Mystified

Suppose you survive for as long as you can and at a hundred and ten you find yourself looking out at the world from a nursing home window. What then? We already know how it will end, so... the issue is, how does one prioritize living? Definitive answers are not presented in here. It's up to you how you should live, but it doesn't hurt to take some time to listen to the music in the all-ness and isness of ecological awareness. It's a fine thing to sway and march and play without purpose for Life with a capital L isn't as serious as we presuppose. The trick to it is to play the game of living sincerely without sarcasm. Play the game without making winning and losing the be all and end all of who you are and what's important. A flake of snow is incredibly important just before it hits the ground. A burning ember is important, just before it goes out. People are not just competitors for scarce resources. Nature's way is abundance. Nature is dispassionate indifference. These are the rules we live by. Play for the sake of play without cruelty or deceit. Reading this is a time for you to enjoy yourself and put up your feet - literally and/or metaphorically (you may or may not have feet). This asks questions without definitive answers, like: Why must we do what we do? Do we do what we do to keep boredom at bay? What's wrong with boredom anyway? Go into boredom and you might find that it isn't all that bad; it makes time last a whole lot longer. This asks: How do you feel about ambiguity? Do you pity ambiguity? Can you live within uncertainty? Can you feel empathy? How's your imagination? Go between yes-and-no and on-and-off and black-and-white and what do you get? Without a goal step through the veil of thinking that obscures the feeling of being. Forget what you think you know and go with the flow in streaming awareness. Forget work for a minute and forget the work of play for a time, and loll on a lawn, on the ground or floor or chair in the shade of a tree. Be useless for a while. Be lazy without compunction. Feel the humour of who you are.