"...and they raised a glass once more. So pleased with themselves and all their accomplishments. No one saw the frightened shadows searching for their tortured souls and stolen identities in all the misunderstood mayhem of the festivities"
Aran my 7 year old nephew (or is he 8?) was really taken aback by the reply I gave him to the question "What do I want for christmas?"
"Nothing" I said to him
"Nothing?" he exclaimed. You could read him like a book from that moment. Aunty Rubi is definitely mad!
For much of the year I have long pondered the word "want" I have witnessed these questions to me:
What do you want out of life ?
What do want of the future?
What do you want from me?
Is this what you want ?
These are questions I have been asked throughout the course of my life and every time my answer will be "I want nothing"
But surely you must want something? Everybody wants something. Even if you don't we will assume the worst and make something up about you.
OK if you must insist, my want is probably more a desire than a want.
A desire is to live in the present always.
The unison of the moment with the mind is worth 1 million presents.
Searching for stillness.
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
― T.S. Eliot
Aran my 7 year old nephew (or is he 8?) was really taken aback by the reply I gave him to the question "What do I want for christmas?"
"Nothing" I said to him
"Nothing?" he exclaimed. You could read him like a book from that moment. Aunty Rubi is definitely mad!
For much of the year I have long pondered the word "want" I have witnessed these questions to me:
What do you want out of life ?
What do want of the future?
What do you want from me?
Is this what you want ?
These are questions I have been asked throughout the course of my life and every time my answer will be "I want nothing"
But surely you must want something? Everybody wants something. Even if you don't we will assume the worst and make something up about you.
OK if you must insist, my want is probably more a desire than a want.
A desire is to live in the present always.
The unison of the moment with the mind is worth 1 million presents.
Searching for stillness.
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
― T.S. Eliot
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