The Sickness

A good friend and I were having a conversation last night and we started joking about the preschool/Montessori times when as young children we would have lunch and then a nap. Somehow the concept just seems so natural to human health that we were actually both legitimately shocked as to why the activity is not continued well into adulthood (at least in the states). Instead you go out, eat a rushed lunch, return to work, down some caffeine, then continue the day like proper over worked bees. There is something quite wrong with that mentality and it seems that it goes a lot deeper than a missed nap.

No less than 24 hours later, I was again reminded of this concept of unnerving wrongness when I just happened to catch a few parts of an old interview with Jimi Hendrix by Dick Cavett. As to be expected, Hendrix sounded blitzed out of his skull, but to me everything he was saying made absolute perfect fucking sense. This Hendrix inspired epiphany then led me to think about the use of drugs (even the religious kind) and all the people that I know and have known that do all types of shit to get by. So many people get fucked up to just to get on the level of a fucked up world situation and then when that person royally fucks up, a using society blames them for being a user. I'm not pardoning dumb shit, but I am questioning the true source.

When does the common person wake up, when do they start changing the world by changing themselves? So many people are unhappy and they say that they're not but I can see it in them like a cancer, they don't allow themselves to hear their own discomfort and they drown it out with a continual stream of material possessions, people, or comforting weekly/bi monthly paychecks.

I don't profess to have the 100% full proof answer and I'd beware of the people that say they do, but I can say that with observation, fearlessness, dedication and precise action you just may find what in your heart you know your looking for.