This is an answer to Sinister’s article of late November, and as it is off my current BBS board into the older stuff, I thought I would post it here. It is a worthy topic that he raised, and it merits more consideration. I also put this under the heading of Pagan, but I was looking for Spirituality… hmm
Sinister spoke of a character in the movie “American Beauty”, and his way of looking at life. I had to contribute, as he requested. Unfortunately he got few replies. Here goes…
I have not yet seen the movie, but I think I will now make more of an effort to get hold of it. I’m a night person, trying to get to sleep when I am not ready only annoys me and keeps me awake more. I often think that this is because I was born at 4:20 in the morning, midnight must have been when I awoke and said ok, ready or not, here I come. By dawn I was born and tired out, which is my natural time to go to bed. But I also feel that it’s because I think that going to bed at midnight or before is wasting the best time of the day. My mind is most creative at night, I have had to get up and write stuff down that would just compose itself in my brain. I sit at the computer and work, and I may have the tv on, or a movie or some music, but there is peace, I know what’s on, I don’t have to pay attention to it necessarily. I take my dog out to the field across the street, and I am surrounded by an airport, and it is by a busy road, but there in the field with Maggie, it is peace. She is doing her sniffing thing, I am watching her. I notice little things on the ground, about the trees, I see a neat rock over there by the edge of the trees. I notice the way the rain encapsulates each and every blade of grass with ice when it is freezing outside. When you notice the little things in life, you start to see how it is all connected. That’s when the peace starts to come in. You realize that each day you just drift through life like a blade of grass encapsulated in ice, alone and separate from the other blades of grass. But together we are a field. The fields together are a continent, and the continents connected by water are a planet. And so on… The depth of vision is the ability of each man, but only those who truly see can benefit by it.
Thank you, Sinister, for your original thought provoking commentary.