Comments on: Lonely Awareness?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:24:08 +0000

Thanks for the comments.

It’s interesting you point out how ‘bums’ and cab drivers seem to have the most interesting things to say. I have noticed the samething. As you point out – these people seem to have more energy to think and consider things. The ‘jobs’ so many others get hooked into leave little room for thinking about anything other than the job itself.

It’s a tradegy how this effects parents with their kids. Both parents out working and the kids being raised by child minders. All this does is cause more and more problems. What long term effects does this have on those kids?

I like your approach to work; gotta be one of the best ways by far.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:41:36 +0000

Yes a good conversation, what a rare thing to find these days! When I do stumble onto one, it always seems like some sort of divine alignment. You know some of the most amazing people I have ever talked to are bums and cab drivers. I can’t talk to most of my ‘friends’ that troubles me many times. They are obsessed in the material, hyper-media world and shit like LOST. They are good people at heart, but they just don’t even “get” a lot the stuff I am interested in. You can see it happen in people’s eyes during a conversation. As soon as something they were never ‘taught’ they will get uneasy and try to change subject or just drift off into space. It really is quite sad. My ‘friends’ were the smartest people in school, yet spiritually are infants. They are atheists, that believe that science can answer all questions. Yet I tried to explain sacred geometry to them, and hit a brick wall. This material world takes too much spiritual energy from people. The “job” takes so much energy that most won’t have time for spirituality anymore. Another way energy is taken is in how people are many times forced to work on things they morally/spiritually object to. I mean I know someone who is working on an ad campaign to sell acid reflex medicine to babies- WTF? I have witnessed this spiritual loss in a few close friends. This is why still at this point, I refuse to hold a regular ‘job’. This puts me in that “crackpot outsider” category among most people. I mean they can’t even ask me ‘What do you do’, so there is nothing to talk about! I don’t want to go through that change that everyone else has, and I don’t want to be like everyone else. Its not that i don’t work, but its all freelance and under the radar. It also doesn’t pay very well, and afford me any luxuries of a “real job”. I am content being poor, yet everyone else wants to force me to get a real job! This is the dilemma I am in right now, i want to do what is right but the challenges are tough.

Thank you for your wisdom and I am quite happy I found your blog. Keep up the great work!

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:45:00 +0000

Yeah totally. I am coming to the idea that it’s simply best to let people live their lives and stop trying to conflict with their view on reality.

Though that’s not always possible, as sometimes integrating these experiences into ones life causes others to start asking all sorts of questions. But maybe that should be seen as an opportunity of sorts.

What do you think?

By: john

john — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:22:47 +0000

Great article that has relevance in my life at this moment.

It is a learning experience in it self not being able to share experiences with your friends and loved ones.

you can point at the door a hundred times but in the end people have to walk through it by them selves.

peace/j