3/30 - Lightning
10 November 2013 15:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skonen_bladesLightning wouldn’t kill us if we were better conduits.
That’s what it’s like with some ideas. They burn us to the ground when we can’t handle their brilliance. Or an insight that drives us mad. A top-down moment where our lives are laid out like easy-to-read maps and it’s so obvious and so sad that it breaks us.
Like knowing exactly what humanity needs to stop eating itself and destroying the earth but not knowing how to accomplish it.
Imagination can think us around corners and through the eyes of needles. Imagination can help us see through walls.
But it’s also the curse that binds us.
It is a weight we can’t swim above. It’s our ability to think that ironically keeps us from true, lasting enlightenment.
We are contradiction engines and it’s misery that fuels our flights into the future.
Happiness can guide us but it’s what we can stand that sets the rules. Where we want to go isn’t as concrete as what we won’t do to get there. And you might surprise yourself.
I’m no prophet but I’d say dark times are ahead.
Also good times but those dark times are going to suck.
Stay strong and remember that lightning needs a conductor. Listen to the orchestra and once in a while, try to dictate the tune.
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That’s what it’s like with some ideas. They burn us to the ground when we can’t handle their brilliance. Or an insight that drives us mad. A top-down moment where our lives are laid out like easy-to-read maps and it’s so obvious and so sad that it breaks us.
Like knowing exactly what humanity needs to stop eating itself and destroying the earth but not knowing how to accomplish it.
Imagination can think us around corners and through the eyes of needles. Imagination can help us see through walls.
But it’s also the curse that binds us.
It is a weight we can’t swim above. It’s our ability to think that ironically keeps us from true, lasting enlightenment.
We are contradiction engines and it’s misery that fuels our flights into the future.
Happiness can guide us but it’s what we can stand that sets the rules. Where we want to go isn’t as concrete as what we won’t do to get there. And you might surprise yourself.
I’m no prophet but I’d say dark times are ahead.
Also good times but those dark times are going to suck.
Stay strong and remember that lightning needs a conductor. Listen to the orchestra and once in a while, try to dictate the tune.
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