VII. Life & Living

Brett LaFave
The weight of the world falls away as an aged paper cloak in the rainstorm of occupation. The business of living is drudgery, but the drudgery of living is our only protection against sorrow. Thus, living separates us from both sorrow and from perfect bliss.

Life is fundamentally perfect except for the occasional necessity for living. We must live for two reasons: living maintains Life, which is fundamentally perfect; and living serves to distract us from our sorrows. We create distractions in order to distance ourselves from sorrow. These same distractions distance us from perfection, which is perfect happiness. We complicate our lives in order to hide our sorrows, but in so doing we also obscure Life.

Sorrows originate when we lose Life. Loss of Life occurs when we lose opportunity, because Life is opportunity. When we lose people, through death or otherwise, we lose Life because losing a person is losing infinite imagined opportunity.

Published by Brett LaFave

I grew up in the Northeast, attended Arizona State University, and dragged my poor Southwestern wife back to the snow with me. I'm just trying to make my way in the world.  View profile

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