Oddity

The world never stops, not even for a moment. Regardless of circumstance, something is always in motion. It is this constant forward process that sparks reverse motion. For every event created, one disappears, but not disappears but simply changes into different form. Although matter can not be lost, the abstract can. Those electrons and neurons that hold our thoughts and feelings can be destroyed or worse, changed. Although we rely on memory and take for granted the fact that such large vasts of space are available to us, we are constantly waging war against this unseen, unheard of phenomenon. We punish ourselves by skewing perception and stooping so low as to skew others. It is hard not to when everyone seems to be striving to the same goal; the goal that no one knows where the red tape of the finish line is. So when someone says to live in the present, is that possible? How can you look to the future when it doesn't exist. There is no future, only the past is known and even then, this is mostly false.

Measure up to this hidden standard. Live it. Breath it. Cherish it. For in order to succeed, you must fallow no one but yourself, as you alone share the same perception with no one but yourself. I think I now understand that I can't. I can't know what others are feeling or seeing and I'm sure that what they are seeing is absolutely different than what I see. I'm not just talking about how shapes and colors look, but their stance on the world. You can surround yourself as I had with people who see similarly and share near identical stances, but this will eventually leave you feeling empty. I have often found that those who I least suspected have become my most respected peers. It's that quiet girl in the back of the room that ends up being the interesting one rather than those talking of last nights party. The guy keeping to himself that has an ever burning love of explosives rather than sports. Someone who's pure dedication motivates others to reapply themselves to self betterment. These people are the ones who I would place before myself for the rest of, well, my short time in this generation. Haste to conform to these flecks of gold in the river of our civilization because you yourself may be one of them for someone else.