Lose Yourself

Lose yourself to the swaying of the trees and the harmony of the birds. Lose yourself to the rhythmic tenderness of the waves upon the shore. Lose yourself to the melody of your heart, as your feet gently flow you from side to side. Clap your hands with excitement, scream at the top of your lungs. Laugh until it hurts, and you just can't take it any longer and then laugh some more. Laugh until tears run down your face, and you become a blubbery snotty mess. Lose yourself to humor and to pain. Lose yourself to the grief, the fear, the anger, the misery, and the suffering. Feel everything as if feeling it for the first time, as if it had never happened before and it's your first experience of the feeling. Experience everything without any preconceived notions or expectations. 

Lose yourself to Love. Lose yourself to yourself. Lose yourself in order to find yourself hidden within yourself. Lose yourself in every moment of every day. Lose yourself and don't look for yourself. Peace, joy, and liberation from misery can only come around when we lose ourselves. We have the most fun when we aren't thinking about ourselves. As soon as we find ourselves, we become aware of ourselves and therefor need to think about ourselves and then we are too busy thinking about ourselves to see the peace and joy staring us straight in the face.

Lose yourself to play, to fun, and happiness. Lose yourself to the beauty, grace, and majesty of the world and no longer have any vision of the world on fire. When we cling to ourselves misery follows us wherever we go. When we lose ourselves, misery vanishes into the nothingness it always was. Love and Peace!  

Time Is A Loop

If time were linear there would be a beginning and an end. A line always has an end, no matter how long that line is. Time never began and time will never end. Therefor time cannot be linear. Time is a loop. What is the only shape that you can keep going straight only to end up back where you began. A Circle or sphere. The earth is a sphere and if we took a nonstop flight across the world, we would end up right back where we started by going in nothing but a straight line. Time from our tiny distance within it appears to be a straight line. We just haven't looked far enough into the future to end up looping back around to the past which brings us to the eternal present or now. 

Since time is a loop we have a linear future, a linear past, and a fixed present. When we embrace the entirety of our time our past, present, and future all merge into one continuous time loop. The past is not separate from the future in the same way two people who live on separate sides of the globe aren't separate from the world.

Since our time is a loop where past, present, and future are not separate but one we have the ability to change any part of our time. We can change our past in the past, present, or the future. We can change our future in the past, present, or future. We can change our present in the past, present, or future. Time is not an endless fixed line where you just keep moving forward and can never go back. Time is a loop where you can go back by going forward. You can go forward by going back. Or you can live in the eternal present. Love and Peace!

Adaptation

Humans' ability to adapt to any situation is pretty impressive if we think about it. We can adapt to anything. We can adapt to being abused, tormented, beaten, tortured, and imprisoned. We can go through hell with events such as war, famine, loss, drought, natural disasters, fires, floods, strong winds, and earthquakes. We can adapt to grief, fear, hate, guilt, shame, and misery. We can adapt to our bodies drastic changes whether it be from puberty, or severe weight gain or loss, physical disabilities, paralysis, loss of limbs or appendages, birth marks, body disfigurements or mutations, and impediments. We can adapt to any physical disease including cancer and HIV. 

We can adapt to severe mental illnesses such as but not limited to depression, anxiety, cptsd, schizophrenia, and compulsion. We can adapt to living in any kind of environment with any type of conditions, we humans are spread out throughout the world in almost every environment. Humans can live down in the dirt in the dump with no money all the way up to the tallest penthouse mansion in the world with billions of dollars and everywhere in between. Humans can adapt to new ideas, belief systems, laws, and rules. 

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger. As long as we are not dead, we can and will adapt, it is human nature. Since humans are able to adapt to anything at any time in any circumstance, it begs the question. What are humans so afraid of? Why do humans spend so much time and energy worrying about "bad" things that will probably never happen but even if those things did happen, the person who wasted so much energy worrying would naturally adapt to whatever the new situation is that they are so afraid of only to realize that they are fine and they were able to adapt.  

In America it would be very easy to end up in medical bankruptcy and lose your job only to end up on the street without a home. Shit happens. Should we waste our time worrying about it? What good does that really do? If it happens, which it probably won't, but if it does, we will adapt plain and simple. Will it be fun at first? No. Will we be happy at first? No.  Will we wish we weren't homeless? Yes, but that doesn't mean we won't adapt to our new situation and find our way out. It's either fight your way back out of homelessness or give up and be the happiest homeless person you can be who spends their day spreading joy and asking nothing in return.

There is no reason to be afraid of anything that may or may not happen in the future. Either it will kill your body, in which case there was nothing you could do anyways, or you will adapt. With enough time anything can become normal and comfortable. There is nothing to fear. Love and Peace!

The Rule-Maker

As a child I had rules forced upon me. These rules were always made by the rule-makers a.k.a. the adults. Most often the rules imposed on me by adults didn't make any logical sense. I, as well as most children just assumed that adults were a little wacko and were people who just like make up rules for the fun of it. Adults were usually not very fun to be around, always telling you what to do and what not to do. Clean your room, brush your teeth, don't pick your nose, go to bed, and on and on. Not to mention, within adults there are a lot of perpetually angry adults whereas with kids, the perpetually angry kid was rare. I learned to zone out the adults and I would play with other kids. Children have this universal comradery where we all share the same experience, the experience of having rules forced upon us that we didn't understand and weren't even allowed to ask about. We couldn't question the rules, only follow them and be punished if we didn't. Being with other children felt safe, whereas being with adults you never knew when you were going to get into trouble next or what new rule was going to be imposed.

As a teenager I started to rebel against all the rules, I found it harder to just ignore them like I did when I was a child, the rules seemed to just be stacking up endlessly. When puberty come around, I got introduced to a whole new encyclopedia of rules. The insecurity from confusion and fear surrounding puberty makes us kids turn against each other and we lose our comradery that we had as children. Going into the higher grades in school resulted in even more rules and expectations. I started to do drugs, drink, and commit crime as a way to fight back against the oppression that was assaulting my individuality from all sides to make me conform to society. I became very angry and bitter that I was being forced into this world of slavery, oppression, control, dominance, and servitude. 

Anxiety and depression start up in high school do to all the pressure that I'm always under to not fuck up. For a few years after high school, I have some fun with my life. For the first time in my life, I was considered an adult and now that I was an adult I was free from all the rules. It made perfect sense to me as a child that since adults were the ones who made the rules that obviously meant they couldn't also have rules. I lived in beautiful and ignorant bliss for about four years or so. Then I couldn't keep reality at bay anymore and had to admit defeat. I was forced to open my eyes to the obvious fact that even adults have rules too. Adults Love to make rules to control those who are deemed less than in society. 

I was an adult who had rules about how to act in society, manners, how to speak to people, what to wear or not wear in public, what to do, and how to be. Worth a mention that I was raised in a religious home who worshipped a god who was the ultimate rule-maker. Cptsd, generalized anxiety, severe depression, and a whole host of other mental illnesses is what the next decade of life is like for me. I felt trapped. I felt lost. I felt hopeless.

Midlife crises came along around the age of 38 or so. I have followed the rules my whole life and what has it given me? Nothing but the knowledge that this will just be my life. This is what life is, get born, go to school, go to work, maybe have a few years to retire then die. That's just how it is. Except I was lied to by the adults, I was made to believe that If I followed the rules and did what I was supposed to I would be able to have my own home someday. Yes, I rebelled from time to time but honestly who doesn't? Of all of my friends from high school only a couple of them own a home, most of them are still living in shitty apartments or with their parents. I was told I could have a home; the reality is there aren't any affordable homes. I am part of a generation that was told we were going to get a prize for following the rules and yet the prize has been ripped away and we were told to just get over it.

Somewhere along the way I started making rules myself. I would make rules for me, rules for other people, and rules for everything and everyone. I had become a rule-maker. I was a controlling, selfish, angry, and bitter rule-maker. I had become the thing that I hated most as a kid; a rule-making adult. One day I say fuck it. This world doesn't give a fuck about me, so fuck it, I may as well just do whatever the fuck I want to and stop pretending to be sorry about it. I become myself, I become who I was always meant to be. I become who I would've been if I hadn't been forced to live in a society that suppresses individuality. I become unapologetic, authentic, and genuine. I no longer lie to myself, or others and I no longer carry around shame or guilt. I am no longer a rule-maker.

By giving up my role as rule-maker and letting go of everything that I was supposed to be and everything I was supposed to do. I found my genuine self. Throughout my journey I had found God, thought I lost God, rebelled against God, and then found God all over again. I have come to see all the beauty in the world and the interconnectedness and oneness of all beings. Life is beautiful, life is precious, and life is worth living. One thing I have learned through all of this is that if life doesn't feel worth living, it's due to life being lived unauthentically. When life is lived authentically and genuinely, it becomes a precious work of art that's filled with beauty beyond human comprehension.  

I consider myself lucky. I get to relive my life. I get to start over. I get to keep all of my knowledge that I have acquired throughout my life and was born again into a new life with a new name. I am no longer a rule-maker and now I see adults for what they are. Adults are children trapped in adult bodies who are trying their hardest to be rule-making adults to fit in with all the other so-called adults, but who deep down just want to play and have fun and are too scared of getting punished for breaking the rules. Love and Peace!

The Plants Around Us

Plants have evolved to use any and all species to their advantage. We know that plants attract insects to use as pollinators. We know that plants use carbon dioxide that is exhaled by animals. We know that plants produce burs which attach to fur and feathers to spread seeds. We know that plants produce good tasting fruits and vegetables for all sorts of species to enjoy in order to spread their seeds even further. Plants live a lot longer, use less energy, and can survive drought and famine far better than most other life forms.

Have we considered that plants evolved to have certain effects on humans in order to ensure their survival? Plants with healing properties for humans tend to not go extinct. Humans tend to keep around plants that help them. When a plant has a healing property for us, we ensure its survival by continuously planting it and helping it grow.

Some plants such as tobacco have addictive chemicals in them to ensure their survival. The fact that tobacco contains an addictive substance has ensured that it is a hugely successful species; Humans have chosen to cultivate the plant because of the nicotine, and indeed make sure that weeds and pests may not interfere with its growth. Without the nicotine, tobacco would probably be considered to be just a weed and would not be nearly as successful. The original 'purpose' of the nicotine was probably to poison its natural enemies, which unfortunately it also does to its human cultivists.
Chris Wright, Twickenham UK

Some plants have the ability to get us "high" or to make us "trip". Marijuana is considered a weed, hence once of the names for it is weed. With marijuana legalization happening around the world, the plant is having exponential growth throughout the world ensuring its survival. Let's not pretend that marijuana being illegal ever did anything to get rid of it. It is a very popular plant and has been ever since it's discovery in early human history. Just because some people were afraid of a plant and made laws to try to stop it, didn't mean that they actually could. The hemp plant itself can be refined into a variety of commercial items, including paper, rope, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, and animal feed. Hemp is so useful to humans, that it has ensured that as long as humans are around so the hemp plant will be also.

Plants smell pretty, look nice, have all sorts of properties that help humans and are soothing to be around. Humans believe that we are using plants when they are the ones using us. They've been around longer than we have, they know what they are doing. If they didn't want us to use them, they wouldn't let us. They would make themselves so unappealing to us that we would never want to go near them again. We know that Certain plants have innate pest-repelling properties. For example, research has found that some marigold species, catnip, and chrysanthemums contain phytochemicals that prevent insects (including mosquitoes) from feeding on them. If plants wanted to repel humans as well, they would find a way and it wouldn't even be very hard. Love and Peace!