Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The myths of your life

You are imagining all kinds of things: Telling yourself your story and then living it out. But it's hard to change the story, and anyway it's quite nice the way that it is. In my story, I am fighting demons only to discover they aren't really there. Then imagining they are within and saying hello to them here. In time, discovering they weren't really here either; just figments.
But it's hard not to be sucked back into the story, and even when you escape from one, there's another bigger story. In my bigger story, I am a Knight riding to the rescue of something. If there were no story, what would there be? Just what is: no interpretation, like the purest ice-cream with nothing added. Just a space to be glorious. For now, we are living the myth.
In my story, I am fighting demons only to discover that they aren't really there. Then imagining they are within and saying hello to them here. In time, discovering they weren't ...

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