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2007-01-29 - 4:52 a.m.

dontcha just love the roller coaster


well, if you don't then you take everything way too seriously and probably don't like it here much, but then, that is just my opinion based on my perspective and I may be completely wrong so enjoy yourself and focus on the positive, right?... the segue from one to another to another to another leads us to yet another and that other is none other than the euphemistic z0tl... yes, we come to another series of entries inspired by (and in large part written by) the increasingly evanescent z0tl... z0tl wrote:


ephemeral ball of doubt

now i see it, now i don't, but whenever i see it, it's at least double in size compared to last time.

attrocious brain:z!
i need a year off and learn to break any and all attachments from having a long hot shower every day to nice weather around the year to never have starved in my life to never actually freeze for any extended period of time!

i need to empty my fridge and go in for the long term.

it is friday and it feels like black monday must have felt for the stock market. i want to know i could have lived through 1929 AND the black plague days.

i want to walk barefooted through the serengeti and be eaten by a hippo, have my throat slashed on al jazeera TV and not beg for mercy, i wanna know i can self-immolate whenever i feel like i don't want to deal with a toothache.

!!!! I WANT TO BE FREE TO COME AND GO !!!! AS I PLEASE !!!! BUT MOSTLY GO !!!!

instead i keep pointing to all the ball:z and chain:z and make excuses that being weak and feeble minded is okay too. someone's gotta do it, why not me?



and I responded:

I so clearly hear the first paragraph, I thought I wrote it... but then, I've been through all four of those phases... simultaneously, even...

measuring my 'work life'... if we can agree that an adult lifetime starts at 18y/o, then I have "taken off" 37.9% of the working years of this adult life... another 12.8% of the years, I worked a job with rather flexible hours... and for about another 48% of the rest of the working years, I worked evening or night shift...

I like my autonomy...

the drat-of-it-all at the moment is I am really enjoying my new job, which is less than ten minutes from my bed, and would not want to move into another job I do not enjoy as much that requires more travel time...

changing tasks and lifestyles every few years and taking a couple of extended early retirements has kept me from hating the work routine...

the sacrifice is that I am poorer with each passing year and retiring "for good" might require a miracle of sorts... but I am open to miracles, so there's always hope :)

Jackson Browne should be in the headphones about now (ah, The Late Show, perhaps... and the rest of late For The Sky... but first, a comment inspired by z0tl and some other thoughts about current experience in this body, after references listed for further exploration as time permits... please let me know what you think if and when you find time)...

Richard Bach: Illusions

and yes, the books [of Bach] can easily be interpreted about life and death and the choices we make... and the search for meaning and perhaps even the realization that everything is illusion, meaningless unless we give it meaning in our heads...

that is ultimate freedom - and to bring it into consciousness is the story behind another book:

James Redfield: The Celestine Prophesy

the latter missive slightly tainted for me as I read it in the mid-nineties and obviously fooled myself into believing I was on a higher level of consciousness than I actually was in practice in life - but that is the irony and duality of this physical world, no matter how well we understand and believe in anything, we can often act as though we know nothing when a primal desire becomes more important than our own conscious reasoning...

SEE: The Eagles: Wasted Time
re: if I could only stop my mind...

meanwhile, back in the real world, I woke up and rolled over and attempted a few push-ups this morning and am appalled at the deterioration of my upper body muscles and their inability to repeatedly lift the bulk of the extra 40-odd pounds piled on to my upper body off the ground... my mind remembers, as if it were only yesterday, when I used to roll out of bed, do fifty push ups, a hundred sit-ups, a few other body manipulations against gravity, head out for a ten mile run, shower, and start the day... the has become pure illusion in my mind, yet I ignore that fact in practical reality every time I tell myself "I'm hungry" and proceed to consciously forget that six ounces or even eight ounces of food is more than enough for the body at one sitting while I proceed to consume a pound of spaghetti and a half pound of meatballs... the sensory apparatus shuts down in the every expanding stomach until the next morning when I wake expecting the memory of being in shape to be real and I discovery the extra forty pounds are very much in my way...

bipolar illusions slipped into the 24 hour circadian rhythm, the process of denial of the daily routine and how it effects the body thanks to the convenient shut down of the mind that allows primal desires for oral gratification and gastro-intestinal satiation to override the desire to feel optimal in this physical shell and therein feel comfortable sharing the body... result: bloat, loneliness, denial, self-pity, more comfort food...

knowing all this does not stop the process...

same for the Seagull... knowing does not change the behavior unless the conscious mind decides to pick one desire and follow through on it over the other incompatible desires...

life, death, two relatively opposing choices... we choose to remain alive by breathing and not doing something that stops our breathing, yet many also choose, every day, to eat (me, for instance) and drink and consume products and support industries and wars that are suicidal and we ignore this, therein ignoring how we undermine living and disregard our knowledge and turn away from the enlightenment that is on the tip of our tongues in our minds...

meanwhile, I was thinking of cutting my hair today... then I remembered how much I enjoy change... but I enjoy sharing change even much more and have been putting off cutting my hair until I found a friend who wanted to share the experience... intimately, even... maybe I'll just change the color first... but then, I'd like to share that too... alas, so much time putting off things - waiting for someone to share them with... just like waking up and setting my daily eating/exercise habit priorities straight... and you think you've been a fool for love?...

optimism, loving self, letting go of pain, healing, feeling good - is a choice too... but knowing that in the mind and doing it in every day actions, well, that's the difference between flying into the sky or flying into the ground... or a mountain of memories, for that matter...

may we find our illusion becomes consistently focused on our highest priority and therein stop giving into the secondary desires so repeatedly that they get in the way of actualizing our most wanted illusion...



and so another journey with z0tl begins... in the next entry, we continue, in random progression, to bring the momentary threads throughout all of these catch up entries (oh, I know, so deep are they woven that few can follow and so I seldom mention so as not to defy the illusion they may be to the few who may sense their presence)... may you enjoy your journey...






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