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Lost

I am lost,
and find myself looking around the living room like a bewildered John Travolta in the movie Pulp Fiction.

I find myself disillusioned. I’ve asked too many questions and sought too many answers and now I know too much.

They are right, ignorance is bliss.


Humans have created a world where access to basic safety is financialized. Shelter, food, healthcare, rest, community: all monetized. And when you make noise about it people fight for this system. They fight for the rat race.

Where to from here? Still, anything is possible.

I don’t want to be in my ego.
I don’t want to play pretend.
I don’t want to lie and sell you something that isn’t true.
I don’t want to act. I don’t want to smile just to appease you.
I don’t want to gloss over reality. I don’t want to gloss over the truth.

But what about the magic? The fantasy? The childlike wonder that has always been a part of my soul? What happens to that part of me?

Balance.
Balance.
Balance.

Both the miracles and the mundane can co-exist.

This world how it is is exhausting.
We have made it about money and power over genuine care and sustainable growth.

I think it is because we are immature. We are still developing. I don’t know what it will take for a greater mass awakening to occur. I don’t know if it will ever happen either. Anything goes. Anything is possible from here.

I still carry hope.
I still carry hope.

As for me, personally, where do I go from here?

I don’t know.
My disillusionment has taken me to a place where it’s hard to trust my innocent impulses. I used to believe that when you jumped a net would appear. That the “Universe will catch me.” That if I just “went for it” that things would magically come together. That I am called to something great if I just trust and go for it, it will be revealed.

But that has not been my experience. I jumped and no net appeared. Instead, I fell deep in a whole with long term bruises I am still in recovery from. I took the step. I followed my heart and intuition. And it led me to a dead end street. It led me to confusion. To bewildered in a living room in Texas state wondering what was it all for?


I recently find myself looking at cost of living in London. Thinking perhaps I will go there and get into fashion.
Alternatively, I found myself fantasizing about living on the road writing my philosophy and ponderings. Capturing videos of the moments that move me and writing my sentiments about them.
Alternatively, I move back to where I’ve been. Focus on making money like the rest of us just to pay rent. Just to eat food. Just to do the same basic thing we are cornered into doing because of the way this world is currently set up for us to exist in.

Alternatively, I move in with my mom. Save more money and work on my visions from there.

Alternatively, I stay in Texas. Find a home here and figure out life from here.

Ugh, even the statement “figure out life” makes me want to puke a little. This feeling of having to figure out life is exhausting.

Alternatively, I make jewelry. Alternatively, I’ll go to portugal. No– to Bali and take a yoga course. Alternatively, I take a yoga course in California instead. No… I will go to Italy. No. Shave my head and become a monk. No. I don’t know.

I am lost.



Dream Vs Reality

The dream feels so much better than the reality.

And as a dreamer, I just want to live in the fantasy.

I want to live in the Ether.
I want to be in the lightwave.

This morning I was walking the neighborhood towards the beach,

The temperature felt perfect.

The air felt sweet and filled deeply in my lungs.
I felt a juicy sense of peace.

“This.” I thought. This is how we are meant to be feeling.

Not rushing around trying to make ends meet.

Not feeling like we are worried about resources,
afraid we won’t have money.

We are meant to be LIVING.
We are meant to be provided for because the Earth already provides all we need.

The Earth grows our food freely.
The Earth grows the resources we need for our homes.

The Earth gave us the animals,
it gave us EACH OTHER.

We should be caring for each other.
Working as a way to contribute to our well-being and good.

WTF is all this extra non-sense?

I’m not having it.

We can be so dulled down by the way society has beaten us into a reality we may not be that excited to wake up to.

We are doing it.

We should live with deep sighs of relief. With peace in our hearts. With health pulsating through our bodies. Yet we are tense, afraid, rushing, stressed. WTF is that about?

We should have time for each other. Time for our babies. Time for simply living. Our energy is so poorly allocated. We are working to raise money to pay rent which is a never ending cycle when the Earth has already provided the materials but capitalism won’t stop running you down. It infuriates me.

I know something is off here. And I am going to do something about it. Even if it’s just write you this message. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”

Provide

Does not the Earth provide all we need?

Behold the trees – they grow freely without charging anyone a buck

Behold the beasts in the fields — they concern not with credit scores and name brand shoes

The Earth provides.

It provides the fruits, the plants, the wheat, the water, the air, the ground for you to lay

Mama Earth has given birth to you and didn’t charge you a penny for it

You then take of the Earth and put a price on it.
You say “650,000 dollars for this home.”

What is this game we are playing?
What are we doing to each other?
What are we doing to our freedom?
What are we doing to our Earth?
Why are we making each other suffer when we could make peace and love instead?

We can make joy, health, abundance, freedom be the norm.

Yet here we are — needing to borrow 650,000 from a bank plus interest so we can slave doing work just to generate money for what the Earth has already provided to you

Work is inevitable.
To eat you must prepare your meal — there is work in that.
To have shelter you must construct it — there is work in that.

Work and money are two different things.

Why not work to create what is good?

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Sometimes my soul cries
When I see what we are doing to our Earth
To each other

We can do better.

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