Life or Death

Is this life or is it death?
Think about it with your next breath.
Is death an ending state to be, or is life and death eternally?
In life there is death, and from death there is life.

THE KEY IS KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE

Step Cautiously

Step, step, pause
Step, pause
Remember
Step, then, pause,
and you will see the shit before you step in it.

Take Your Time

Take your time, slow your pace
Live your life, don't erase
Reach deep inside, find the key
Search yourself, what do you see
A reminesent time and place
Don't stop the beat,the hearts embrace

Welcome To A New World

Do you realize that this is a completely new world that we are living in? Of course most things look the same, and aside from the obvious, like the global economic state, technology, and global warming, the world is in a completely new spin. If you look a little deeper you will notice that a lot of those usually subtle changes aren't so subtle anymore. For instance the weather, it's not so traditional nowadays. Winters, summers, springs, and falls seem to blend together more. It's not so easy to tell when one starts and the other ends. Rainy seasons and dry seasons have shifted from region to region. Also, there was a study that I read not so long ago stating that kids today are less empathetic than they were a few years ago.

On a more spiritual level, the energy around us has shifted. Nature isn't as forgiving when we make silly mistakes. There also seems to be a greater need or pull to move in a different direction, something other than the norm over the last three or four thousand years. Our conscience has shifted to another level. Those of us who recognize this shift are more in tuned and aware of the things happening around us. It's like we are waking up to reality, whether good or bad. We are being forced to take responsibility for our actions. No more scapegoating.

Because of these changes, all living things are having to re-adjust, reform, and adapt. In the near future it will become more and more apparent as these reforms start to take on a more distinctive appearance. I don't think it matters much if we try to resist, the major shifts have already taken place. We are already in a new world. Now is the time to embrace it and move forward.

Perhaps the Mayans were correct with their 2012 predictions. We are right around the corner from the year 2012, you know. I don't think the world will end, maybe it will, who knows, but I do think there will be a completely new reality that we will be living in.

Let's hope it's better than the reality that most of us have been living in up until now.

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE

This is a follow-up post to 'Life's Purpose'. I know that most people will have their own opinion about what the purpose of life is. I also know that some people think that this is the only life we will have, while others feel that there is something else after this life. What you choose to believe about what comes after this life probably has a lot of influence on what you believe the purpose of this life is. That being said, I think there is one thing we can all agree on, and that thing is 'PROGRESS'.

Progress to me simply means refining something or some technique to make it better than it previously was. One of the definitions in the dictionary states" a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage". That's what the purpose of life is. To evolve into something better than what we are now, or were 1000 years ago.

You can prove this by looking at nature (of which we are a part of and not separate from). Everything in nature (possibly with the exception of humans) evolves naturally into something more viable than it previously was. Survival of the fittest is based on the ability to transform according to the environment around you. This could be any type of environment, physical, mental, or whatever is perceived. The things that can't adapt can't continue to exist. We should take heed to this as we are not trying to adapt to our environment, which was here before us and has a lot more intelligence than us, we humans are trying to make our environment adapt to us.

So there it is, THE PURPOSE OF LIFE. Who knew? How could something so simple be the reason why all of this exists? Maybe all of this exists because of simplicity, and exist it has until we came along. Now everything seems so complicated. Well it's not complicated. It's following the same simple procedure that it has always followed, and that's based on an intelligence where this thing exists so that another thing can exist, an intelligence that has built-in checks and balances, an intelligence that replaces those things that are not as efficient (or that hinders the progress of the whole) with something better, an intelligence based on PROGRESS.

Are you living in accord with the purpose of life? Are you working toward a higher stage for yourself and all that is around you? If not, you should be, we all should be, or we all may be replaced.

What Does Crack Do To Your Brain

In a nut shell, it f*cks your brain up. I'm not saying this because I think it physically damages your brain. In which case it probably does. I'm saying it because of the way it holds your brain captive, like a dog chained to a tree. Before you know it, you find yourself wrapped around the tree so tightly that you can't escape.

Here's how it works. You're out with some friends having a good time, or you meet this new girl/guy that you think's down. The night's going great, you're laughing and joking, setting it off proper, maybe at a club getting your dance on and having a few drinks or back at her/his place chilling, having a private set, smoking a little weed, you know how it's done. What ever the case, every thing's good, it's irie, noooo problemo.

Now comes the life changing moment. Someone introduces you to a new friend. One who's smooth, got stilo, can take you to new heights. This is a friend like no other, or so you think. The moment you get acquainted it's total bliss, oooooooooooooh sshiiiii*, what tha fu*k, where am I, I feel sooo free, I'm floating in space, noooooooo worries. Fifteen minutes later, it's, DAAAAMN, WHAT WAS THAT, LET ME GET ANOTHER HIT, and so the night goes. LET ME GET ANOTHER HIT, AHHHH MAN, LET ME GET ANOTHER HIT, SHHHHEW, THAT SH*T IS #@$%& $%*^#......, CAN I GET ANOTHER HIT.

Now this new friend is all you think about. It's like a weird love affair. You can't quite remember how it happened, but you know you need him/her. All day you think about being together, that you can't wait any longer to be with them. "YOU ARE HOOKED"! The chain has been connected to your neck. At first you don't notice much of a difference. Then you start to feel the weight of the chain. Now you start to wonder if you really do love this friend, and if they're any good for you. Nevertheless, you cannot wait to be with them. Everything in your life revolves around this new friend. Nothing else matters but them. "THE CHAIN HAS BEEN ATTACHED TO THE TREE"!

At this point no matter what you do, you never are able to get very far away from this friend. It seems, whenever you do manage to have a thought of your own, about someone or something other than this new lover, you are held just out of reach. Over time you find yourself trying to run in a different direction, trying to have a moment with those fleeting thoughts of other desires. Trying to take a break from the constancy of your lover. Only to realize that you are being wound tighter and tighter around this object of your lust.

Completely helpless, not knowing who you are anymore, and not being able to move or in other words change your situation, "YOU ARE NOW WRAPPED AROUND THIS TREE"! Dying inside, and by now looking like you are dying on the outside as well. Wishing for a glimpse of life the way it use to be. Fading, until some kind soul comes to your aid and attempts to unwind you from around the tree (crack).

This in and of itself is no easy task. You have driven yourself mad attempting to unravel the chain, to no avail. Now you snarl with your teeth, growl, and try to bite anyone who approaches. You don't know how to allow anyone to help you anymore. The few people that are still in your life, or the remnants of what was once your life, you push away. If you are lucky those people persist and try to help you anyway. If you are not so lucky then only destiny will tell what the future holds.

In closing let me just say that crack is no joke. Don't try it. If you are daring and just have to try it, then muster up enough strength to get help in the early stages (real early) when the first doubts start to enter your mind. This is one road you do not want to travel. There are a lot of other things out there to experiment with that aren't as swift, calculating, and utterly destructive as 'CRACK'. However, any thing, person, or situation that controls your mind instead of you controlling it can be viewed as crack. THINK FOR YOURSELF. Get help if you are CAUGHT UP. Be strong, and LIVE YOUR LIFE FOR YOU.

Remember When

Do you remember when you were a little kid? Do you remember thinking that no matter what was going on at the time, whether good or bad , when you grew up you would change it or do something different? It was like you where going to get some sort of magic wand that could change anything. You sat and wished that time would go faster and make you an adult sooner. How many of us hang on to that feeling when we actually do become adults? How many of us still have that mindset after we have been exposed to adulthood? Oh what power lies in the ability to imagine changing things at a special time like when you imagined what you would do when you grew up. If you had that magic wand now, what would you change?