I see that there has been some discussion here of the grasshopper and ant fable, and all its wonderful applications. Nice.

But have we humans not evolved a bit beyond seeing existence for ourselves as being limited to either the life of the irresponsible, thoughtless, present-oriented grasshopper or the responsible, slavish, future-oriented, ant?

Is there not more that we humans can create than these two forms of existence for ourselves?

I am probably far closer to the ant - or a bee - than a grasshopper, yet I can admire a grasshopper. That does not mean I have to feed one: it just means that I can leave the grasshopper free to do as it wishes.

Each of us is exactly free to do as we wish: it is the training we receive from a very young age that compels us to accept the worker paradigm as our lot in life. Why not be a creator instead? I know, I know: government and all of consumer-oriented materialistic society tells us we must work, share, provide and pay. And if that is what you want to do, and all you want to do, then fine, have at it.

But I would ask you each to consider a paradigm in which you live through and by the best expression of your talents, where you live as much as possible through voluntary exchanges, and you judge a bit less and learn a bit more.

I see that what I wrote in another place has been some discussed here, and yet, the primary point I was hoping you would see: that life is the highest expression of individual awareness interacting with - on as many levels as possible - this existence in which we find ourselves at present.

The awareness of this concept, and its appreciation and enjoyment as we wake and walk through each day of time and space, is what makes life worth living.

Imagine yourself deprived not only of your senses, but your awareness of those senses, and see consider then much you enjoy and savor life.

For those of you who have not yet had the pleasure of making love with all your senses, and enjoying each of those senses separately and as a synthesis of your place in existence, then I hope you will try it will all of creation, because it is a heady and wonderful experience.

Try this: Wake up early, go out, sit in the grass, feel the grass, smell the earth and the air, watch the sun, listen to the birds, and taste the dew from the leaves. That is your awareness making love with existence. Do you understand this?

You can go to work later and make a lot of money and run your life on the profit principle, if that is your desire. But try living with this existence and directing yourself as an independent, individual living organism to experience it all, just once. Then step back mentally and see what your Observer thinks of this.

We are each a unique individual with much to offer and much to enjoy. Is it not possible that we are all correct in our thinking, each for ourselves?

I am all for profits. I am also all for being present in this life. I do not see a conflict between the two.

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Have Fun. Be Free.
ilo, who occasionally aspires to be a pine marten