posted October 17, 2004 04:02 AM         

I dream of an emotion that fills the hearts of all.
I wonder what, is next to fall.
I question reality and try to remain objective.
But in the end, it’s all just dead perspective.
I wondered and cried,
Floundered, and almost died.

Abstraction… I find myself abstracted in the urbanscape.
The clouds float by on a beautiful blue sky.
The buildings tower far above.
Round in circles I look around.
And then I look down.
Level with the public.
The people round me,
homeless and rich,
Spange and b*tch.
A man in a gray suit, speaks to a box.
The woman walks into a store.
It snowed the night before.
I look up again,
To see the peace amidst the artificial landscape.
I wonder why, I can not fly,
To see the world from far above.

I have statement to make. I think society has lost its focus. Weather it ever had a focus or not, I don’t know, But as we advance further and further down the technological road of the future, I sometimes stop to think, when does materialism stop and life begin? We have forgotten what life is really like. Some of us have gotten so rapped up in making sure that our 401k is coming along and that there’s enough money in the bank, that we forget who we are apart from our material identity. I have asked the philosophical question “who am you” to many of my peers, and a common response is “who am I?” and a laugh.

My intention in writing this Post is to provoke thought about your personal identity. “Who am you?” People of Linda Land, what makes you tick and what is your soul’s purpose for living, not just your body's?

“We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a physical experience.”

posted October 17, 2004 12:54 PM         

Who am I? I'm Danielle

What makes me tick? What's my souls purpouse for living?

Well, first and foremost, my kids... of course. Aside from them?

People. I love (most) people. I love to interact with people. I love to help people. I love to hug people. I love to play with other people. I love to giggle with people. I love to talk, and LISTEN to people.

posted October 17, 2004 02:33 PM         

Love your choice of topic DeepIYM!!!

Thanks for sharing!

posted October 18, 2004 01:06 AM         

Please Put your thoughts out there!

posted November 23, 2004 01:09 PM         

I am an impassioned society within mys-Elf.

I am intense, and can flare in to defensive melodrama when my world is challenged. My Cancer Moon and Mars in Leo wouldn't have it any other way. Apparently my Uranus in Scorpio "adores research, inquiry, investigation".. it's true, I can never bore of philosophy & will investigate myself and why I love or dislike certain things forever! We all live in an intense world ~ the impassioned society ~ and how we choose to experience it will be a constant enthrallment. I believe we are constantly evolving ~ repercussions from one world situation to another. Wasn't it Darwin that believed we were all in the process of making a new species of us? *finding it*
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According to my view, varieties are species in the process of formation, or, as I have called them, incipient species..

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I take it that Darwin referred to us as constantly being the embryonic species. Maybe I interpreted that differently to how he meant it, I wasn't the best in science class, but philosophy always intrigued me! To me it makes perfect sense. We are constantly learning from one another. I am ~ I want to. I drink in information everyday, but have strong beliefs in what I will or won't take on. This makes me who I am.

My beliefs took me to many levels when I was a little woman. I believed 'Empathy' shampoo would make your hair grow, spinach would make you really strong, dogs always chased cats, dogs were male and cats were female *snigger* , banana skins were really slippery, robbers went around in stripes with 'SWAG' bags everywhere, pirates always had a parrot on their shoulder, Ronald McDonald was real, cowboys films really got shot, and if you didn't know what you wanted to do when you were older you were a 'unfocused'. Not true!

So therefore, I believe in my own 'feeling' and intuition in any topic aswell as weighing up the fact. I believe in truth, love, fairies and angels and most of all mys-Elf

What I'm made of
If I tell them,

That I won't be,

What they want to be,

Maybe they'll open their eyes,

And finally see,

What I'm made of.
Jeremiah D., Lindley, NY

posted November 23, 2004 08:54 PM         

I'm a Cancer Moon, Gemini Rising.

posted November 29, 2004 01:21 AM         

And the weirdest thing is, that I don't remember being that anti-social- but I figured out why that is. I was always too busy listening as a kid, rather than talking. I still am. I love watching, and listening, and just sitting on the sidelines while other people interact and put themselves forward. I've always seen the truth in thinking before speaking, and I think that's what I've been doing for most of my life.

I want to see change in the world. I want to see change in society. And I believe that we do have to "be the change that you want to see in the world". There's so much that can be learned by just watching the life that's going on around you.

So, in a nutshell, if this makes any sense, I guess what I've been trying to do in my past fifteen years of life is to 'think before speaking'.

posted December 04, 2004 07:32 PM         

This reminds me of a poem by Langston Hughes: Theme for English B. Anyone read it? I love it.

What makes me tick? People, ideas, identities, interpersonal relationships, words, perceptions... studying these things never answers any questions for me but propels me to ask more and more fiercely... WHY! I really don't want answers, anyway, I only want new questions. It keeps me going. I am an eternal student of the universe!

posted December 04, 2004 11:39 PM         

Being Pure…

The wisdom that is contained within the Heart is ignored by the spirit, The Spirit loses the great insight of the Soul, and the Soul loses sight of the path. The path will set you free, to become.
The Question that is asked now: “Who am you?” Wondering astray, Not knowing about, Not understanding Why or even caring. Life’s Greatest reword is understanding the Question, Because Once you do understand the question, you can then Strive towards the meaning. The Other Side will greet you with Love, Understanding, and most importantly: Pure being.

I bet you can relate...
You're right, the question is the most important part of life, one must realize the question. Although, I must disagree with you in one aspect though: the Answer...
I think the answer presides in the way we live our lives. If we live well then we did well and we will be rewarded upon death with the question's full answer in its entirety.