Philosophy

"People come, people go.  Nothing ever happens."  Isn't that beautiful?  It sounds so profound.  It reminds me that life can be life even though nothing much happens.  You just have to unfocus your eyes and look at all the normal stuff.

How beautiful...to be driving in the rain...in that 8 o'clock evening glow and fading...thinking about the people you met with today, the interactions and things that passed...cold without, warm within...the smell of car heater which reminds you of winter which reminds you of Christmas...thinking about the people in your life and in the life you had last year and years ago...listening to a call-in radio show where people make song dedications to a wonderful grown-up daughter or a long-lost friend...feeling so thankful for the good friends you have and the people who admire you and the strangers you can have cheerful airy conversations with...feeling the goodness, feeling the warmth and soul of the rain and of the movement and of the twilight...

All of this happened to me tonight, in case you were in doubt.  And don't you sometimes experience something like it?  Don't you sometimes have those moments when you feel and you're glad you feel, and it's a nice feeling and you want it to go on forever so that you feel nice forever?  And--but maybe it's just me--don't you start thinking, then, about why it's so nice, and you start realizing how incredibly lucky you are that, somehow, the Nothing that makes you feel that way is really Everything at the moment?  Those are the times when I remember to tell myself, "Slow down you crazy child..."

It's Mad how little things--a car heater, autumn rain, that time between day and dark--can add depth and interest to life.  I know that I cannot make you believe me, dear reader, and I know that you cannot make yourself know what I'm talking about (I am the first to admit to being a stubbornly independent thinker).  But I need to tell you that even though life is sometimes a Hole (what I wrote several days ago attests to that), in life you can also find beauty.  (Really.)  Maybe even Plato's world of Forms, capital-B Beauty.  The point is, I hope you don't miss it.  I hope that now and again you slow down and quit concentrating on having a good time and going to work and dealing with your issues.  Slow down, think deeply, search for feelings, for answers--heck, search for questions.  Reach out for something deeper than This.  I say, why waste life by living only on the surface?