lupaunleashed

Do you ever have days where the world just doesn't seem to make sense anymore? Do you find yourself repeatedly and relentlessly deconstructing the concepts around you that others take for granted - money, politics, religion, or what have you? Do you feel like an anthropologist from a distant world, puzzled by the bizarre behavior of the organisms around you, wondering why you don't quite seem to fit in even among the outcasts? Does it seem like no one around you can possibly understand what it's like to see the world the way you do - that they can't even come close?

Do you feel something stir within you when you look to the night sky? Do you feel the call of silver-spangled snow, dark forests, high mountains beckon you home? Do you wish you could abandon the thousand thousand thoughts that never seem to shut up, and live entirely in the moment? To hunt, mate, sleep, play, and wander where you will, unburdened by the tangled web of consciousness that compulsively analyzes every tiny shred of input from your senses? To live free from doubt and self-loathing, escape from worry and procrastination, no longer subject to sadness and regret. Only the raw sensation; only the ever-changing now.

Love and intellect are the two greatest gifts of humanity, and the source of most of its sorrows. Our individualized perceptions make us more alone than any other animal on Earth. Alien even unto each other, we cherish the few moments we find where we connect to another in a genuine way, even if only for a few seconds. It is when we strip down our selves to the most basic level, when we stop maneuvering and pretending and manipulating each other and are totally honest and open, that we find out who we really are.