Funny how things and people change. Quite a few life changing events have occurred in the past 3 years. I'll spare the details as to not incriminate myself or others involved in my indiscretions. Lets just say that I'm now more than ever living in a rather minimalist state. Que sera, sera..
Maybe I've been due to have my "time in the desert" for a while now. Although I wish that it was just a literal 40 Days, and not the year and a half that its been. Most troubles and events over the past several years have been my fault. The decisions I made through my ego, my stubbornness, and the belief in my "superior intellect" and solid old school morals. Being stuck on myself, thinking I knew it all and could fix everyone else made for tougher times than necessary.
Then I strayed from the path of righteousness. At first I started walking along the shoulder, because it was softer. Soon not only was I walking on the soft shoulder, I started traveling at night so as to avoid the sonlight. After, I turned out my lamp that lit my way. Without that light I ended up wandering the countryside alone, searching for company. Thereupon I came across campfires. Small camps occupied by creatures of the night. Many delights and entertainments were introduced to me. The Drinking! The Dancing! The Carnality! The revelry of the night was intoxicating, I embraced it entirely. The darkness set up a tabernacle in my soul. It became the house for such wicked, ebon desires.
Lo, there was a price to pay for not staying on the path. When I was found wandering, found at the encampments where I did not belong. I was thrust back into the light of day, back into the burning light of goodness. It was to much at first. So I walked in the shade of the low hanging trees, where there was fruit I could have. "Nothing to excess" did not keep me from that capacity. Drunk with the fruit of the shade trees, I sat down one day and found a companion to walk the light with. For a while it was bliss, but to much fruit slowed us down. When I finally realized I should not eat that fruit anymore I fell. Down I fell into the middle of the road. And even though all I was carrying with me, and my companion, scattered. Far from reach..
Luckily I fell at a crossroads. So here I sit, looking in all directions for the best road to travel..
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