Tuesday, July 17, 2007

To Suffer or Not to Suffer...?

I had the choice: spend two hours on the phone deciphering Internet-ology with a nerd from India, who was obviously far more intelligent than me - her
English surpassed my Hindi - or look at the dissolving iMac loading disk spinning it's rainbow colors into oblivion.
I chose suffering!

On the freeway into work I had the choice: stop off at an art gallery. Take in one magical image which would stay with me throughout the day, and lift me up and away from the grim and dementia of my corporate culture. Or stay in the health- depleting, soul-destroying, cancer-inducing-smog of the shunting convey-a-belt traffic, and still arrive late for work!
I chose suffering!

I had the choice: take responsibility for my life in the NOW. Or believe in the Judea-Christian-Moslem fairies at the bottom of the garden, who I can't see, but who leave me notes every time I visit them asking for money.
I chose suffering!

Suffering -
They say is God given for punishment and edification!
But the leting go of suffering offers the reward of the self floating in a heaven of its own understanding.
Pain -
Is the measurement of our trial through this life;
The litmus test of our machine existence!
Mankind-
Will give up anything…But its Suffering?

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