Onwards...

A Path to Inner Peace by InertiaK

‘Long you live and high you fly.

And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry,

And all you touch and all you see

Is all your life will ever be.’

              – Pink Floyd

       I know not a person who is unencumbered by a strange lack – by the odd sense that there is something missing in these lives we live. It is, perhaps, an inevitable consequence of the human condition… Maybe we are not meant to be completely satisfied. Maybe happiness is but a dream, an ephemeral vision of another world – both close to our grasp and irrevocably distant at the same time.

       Personally, I have come to see happiness as a state of the soul, rather than just the heart or the mind (as people so often endeavour to believe). There is something deeper about that feeling than we could explain through means of logic or emotion alone. It must reverberate within our souls; we must embrace it – lest it flee beyond our understanding once and for all.

       I know not a person who is truly content with his or her lot. It is within our nature – on a very basic, fundamental level – to strive, to endure, to persevere, to accomplish. This, I believe, has brought us to where we stand today. But it might just be our downfall… I wonder what happens when the process we have defined – the stairs we climb on the path to any kind of success – becomes devoid of meaning.

       I wonder what remains when there is nothing left to crave, no more dreams to follow. It should be rather interesting to discover what happens then, I think. Or perhaps not… It does sound like a lonely road, that one. And there is too much lost along the way.  

       It is much better to make your own way, I would say. And stride onwards with those who love you at your side.