You should desire only to be free.
Last Monday I did some deep-breathing exercises and it got me really energized so I was standing around in my empty apartment, gyratin' and shimmying and doing all kinds of wacka-doo.
Then I went for a run and yelled, "I'm in a manic state and need to burn off my energy with cardio-vascular exercise!" But my chest started hurting real bad so I yelled, "Excellence begets excellence! I'm gonna have a heart attack." But I think what had really happened was that I had pulled a shimmying muscle.
Then later in the week I got a whole bunch of dry-erase markers and drew unicorns on a giant whiteboard in the middle of the Student Center.
Then at my job I followed a kid around at the before-school program I work at and sang in a deep voice, "It's the story of Kilbor"
Then on Friday, in thirty-degree weather I stripped down to my shorts and a t-shirt, yelled, "You are all witness!" and ran a really hard mile and hurt my lungs from the cold.
Today I ran for 2 hours, fell in some mud, yelled at cars that didn't sufficiently pull over, and thought about how life doesn't feel like I'm on the edge of a cliff anymore.
I feel like a snowflake, caught in the sudden drafts of a storm cloud, flying to and fro at incredible speeds. And from a distance, I'm an invisible speck in a blanket of calm grey.
You're only chance at happiness is to be like the ping-pong ball. Complete, sturdy, and able to reflect and fly with the energies of the universe.
...came up with that while sitting on the toilet.
3 comments:
This was really nice.
Haha this is awesome, not the hurting the lungs cold part but all of it:
"Then at my job I followed a kid around at the before-school program I work at and sang in a deep voice, "It's the story of Kilbor"
Then on Friday, in thirty-degree weather I stripped down to my shorts and a t-shirt, yelled, "You are all witness!" and ran a really hard mile and hurt my lungs from the cold."
Also, this is a really good line, is this from somewhere? It sounds like, one of those powerful famous quotes. But then I looked it up and your blog is the only match in the universe!:
"You should desire only to be free."
Thanks! and thanks!
I can't take credit for the quote. You were right about it being from something. It's from the Enchiridion which I posted a link to in an older post.
It's an altered form of this line,
"But, for your part, don't wish to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a contempt of things not in our own control. "
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