cause it erases time. (a friend, sandy pepper, once said, 'time is what makes us human.')
does the future exist? that is the most important question you can ask. if you say no, you're a process person. if you say yes, you are able to sacrifice much to reach goals. absolutely two different ways of living.
personally, i'm a process person. when i was in college, i remember saying, 'the future does not exist.' hell, there it was, the curse of a life. it meant i would never really be able to plan anything. i envisioned myself as a clown tumbling through the universe. damn, i still do.
ah, if only i could have been a new yorker, working my way through an mba, setting myself up in paris as the head of american express, letting the dollars roll in, living in the fourth arrondissement
suffering succotash, not to be. i had to roam around bali, the pictures here: www.pbase.com/wwp/bali wandering in and out of night-time dances, climbing volcanoes in the early hours. the imperative: life has to be an adventure.
well, here it is, the verge of old age. very little in the bank. don't drive a new car. renting a room (which actually feels very luxurious and which i love), not concerned for a plot in the cemetary, ashes scattered in the woods enough.
on the other hand, the process person needs those who live with goals. they've helped me enormously. and i recommend if you're an old hippie who can't stand setting up a retirement fund, that you team-up with those who can.
the two need each other. the present-obsessed person supplies the needed energy for the one who would live to save for a comfortable old-age. and the latter supplies a certain continuity for the future-challenged.
we don't live to be alone, and fool ourselves if we think we are.
new photos searching for shamanism: www.pbase.com/wwp/loop and www.pbase.com/wwp/loop2
