I am feeling sad the more I realize that so many humans are born like puppies and die pretty much like other animals. I am learning what it means for me to squander my inheritance of being human. I am becoming aware that I could live my whole life and, except for passing moments, not experience what it really means to be human. Not even know what is possible.
It saddens me that there are so many people who are wandering in an imaginary dream-world, unaware that they are capable of so much more. Some are born that way with an impaired ability to understand. Some are simply ignorant and lack the needed knowledge. Some chose the path of being unaware because they avoid the pain of letting go of the world they think they know.
I have spent much of my life in ignorance and delusion. There have also been many distractions along the way. For years, I relied on religious belief to fill the gaps of my knowledge, and now I realize how much I was living in someone else’s dreamy imagination. I was unaware of what many people had learned thousands of years ago and what others had uncovered in the past century. I was uninformed, unconscious, and I allowed my culture to take over.
I am grateful that I am beginning to understand that there is an alternate reality and humans have the ability to live in it. My consciousness is finally beginning to awaken. Someone finally turned on the lights.
I am sad that so much of humanity seems to be unaware and stuck in a world of thrashing teenagers. There is hope because I see some adults in the room.