What does it mean to "drift" through life?
Like on a breeze? Going wherever the wind (life) takes you?
Or maybe it's walking blindly. Taking life step by step, feeling the ground before you with your bare feet making sure it's safe to tread. Holding out a naked hand in search of a guide, but finding that the hand stays empty. Fooled by the song of the wind. Hearing it's crescendo over grassy fields and concrete jungles, tricked into chasing after what we only hoped was the presence of another like us. Fools we are. All of us.
There's no one here. No crying babies to drool on our clothing. No howling children to pull at our shit tails begging silently with large round eyes for something we cannot supply. No parents interrupting our drift, trying with every fibre of their existence to point us in the right direction. No teachers to guide us. No preachers to lie to us. No politicians to blow up our brains with false hope. No librarians to shush us in chilly buildings. No friends to talk to til five in the morning. No lovers to hold us when we feel lonely, to look into our eyes and tell us we're almost there. No classmates to push us forward. No pets to love us with unknowing loyalty. No doctors to charge us for taking a breath. No strangers to stare as we pass them by. No clerks in stores to keep a watchful eye. No neighbors complaining again and again..no...No....NO! Nobody! Nobody's here, we're all alone. Why is that so hard to understand?
Why do we hold on to false hopes of becoming famous and reaching the stars? Do we not know that to get close enough to touch a star means instant death? Why do we put ourselves through agonizing pain, trying desperately to achieve the greatest of goals...beauty, power, fame, respect, wealth?
Forget all of that!
Forget who brought you into this world, and who can take you out.
Forget about the lamb, 'cause Mary's never getting it back.
Forget about the sowing; reaping may never come.
Just drift.
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Feel the wind at your back, the earth beneath your feet, the sun beaming down wishing you could bask in it's glory! Do you feel it?? Do you?!
Feel it!
Close your eyes and open your heart.
Now follow it.
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Drift.
