I was driving back in a horseless carriage over dark hard trails from Kiowa and Comanche lands and happened to turn the radio dial to a South Asian station in which the DJ asked two questions. Interspersed with a variety of driving, rhythmic music, he received numerous speculative call-in answers mostly in English but some with Hindi phrasing, all of which got me to musing right along with them:
1) Why do people trouble each other in this life?
2) What is the soul thirsty for?
Before I put up some of my own responses, what do you, dear reader, think?
Today's Rune: Partnership.
7 comments:
I've thought about that first question many times: Why do people trouble each other in this life? I wish I had one concrete answer, but I don't. I've observed young prisons living their lives as if they were emulating a rap video. Perhaps the media, without its social outlets has overloaded their circuits, their brain-waves. But then I've seen other prisoners do illogical things and I've been told they're mentally ill. I think the biggest conflict with all people has to do with what the soul is thristy for. We're all pursuing different things; we're all getting in each other's way, and that's where the conflict starts.
Oh, to type too fast. Sandwich an "er" between that "n" and that "s" to make prisons into prisoners.
... also, I meant "with" instead of "without." Perhaps it's too early in the morning and my mind is troubled.
Erik, I do not wish to trouble anyone. I'm to lazy and complacent to intentionally do that. Wish for? Contentment. Hands down!
1) Because the world is full of pricks who are not satisfied by anything.
2) Difference and diversity of being.
People sure do like to control others it seems. that may be a large part of it.
Thanks all for the most excellent responses! Good q's and a's to mull over, and ways of looking at life.
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