Well tonight is quite a boring night at the Marriotts Mountainside hotel. Even the drunk European guys that have been staying here all last week aren't even drunk anymore. They must think its boring too.
Well today was payday and I guess thats the reason why you work right? To earn money... I just answered my own question yay. I wonder, when the people invented "money," that they took into consideration how controlling of an item such a thing would be. I wonder if they ever knew the impact something like currency would have on a world. Better yet, the impact it would have on individuals and the kind of jealousy and greed and envy it would create. I wonder if they ever thought of me, sitting all alone in a very expansive hotel, bored out of my mind, in the middle of the night when all normal people are sleeping just to earn the stupid "money" that someone or some group of people invented. Did they ever?
Its almost enough to make me go hippy and try and live off of the peaceful land but of course then I would have to probably run around naked and sleep in a tree house, that was actually a bus stuck in a tree...Hmmm nevermind.
Its almost enough to make me go Indian so I could go to rendevous and trade "goods" but then I would have to sit cross legged all the time and end up smoking weird things I've never heard of which would probably cause me to envision weird things which may lead to a tragic death or something I might regret.
Well I guess work isn't all about money. Its really more about the experience and connections that you CAN make. Not that you will ALWAYS make them. Emphasis on CAN and ALWAYS. Haha I just like to capitalize them...jk...Meaning they are there for you to initiate but you may not always act upon them.
Oppurtunities and gifts are given to us on a daily basis, probably hundreds of times a day but we probably don't even take advantage of half of the things we could. Every time someone starts something new, or even gets up for the day they have choices to make and paths to follow. It's like one of those books where it says: If you open the closed door go to page 154, If you keep following the dark road turn to page 178. A choice leads to another choice which leads to another so on blah blah...and each choice may or may not indirectly affect the next choice and may or may not affect somebody elses choice. It's like everyone creates their own little isolated web of choices, with each choice branching out into a new path with a new choice that starts a new branch or piece of the web. And then take your little web of choices and put it with everyone elses and zoom out and that little web of choices is lost in a gigantic maze of paths. This maze includes many many dead ends that many many other people have already experienced. Take something as simple and linear as you and your choices, alone it is a simple thing and an easy idea to understand, but when you take your choices and intertwine them with everyone elses the connections and consequences are endless, and completely mind boggling. It's fascinating to think about the simple yet complex forms of life itself. That somehow we are here for ourselves and in control of one thing only and thats us, except are we really here only for us? Do we really only control ourselves? And this giant web of lifes paths criss crosses and tracks over other peoples paths and at that particular intersection where two different paths have crossed is where two lives meet each other. Sometimes these intersections are friendly, meaningful, informative. Sometimes they are full of hate and bitterness, and sometimes they mean completly nothing to both individuals because they didn't actually take the time to get to know whovever they encountered. But other times they can drastically change and alter lives. These are the times when people form a real connection, the times when two people share the best of themselves with each other and work for the good of each other. These are the times when its just you and that other person and two different lives that were so opposite yet so similar. These are the times when you can stop a moment and breath and feel confident in the path you are on.
They are the times that just make you smile.
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Well said. I love those moments, too. And don't you feel good when you write them down? It really helps you get to know yourself.
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