Happiness

ego thinks what is right
is what feels safe

life is not an academic pursuit
life is not egotistic testing of "Truth"

happiness doesn’t exist
in rhetoric of the mind

life exists
not in the past but in the present

life exists
not in resistance but in expression

eight-billion humans
occupy earth

you possess
one-eight-billionth of the power of  humanity

one-eight-billionth
is a very small  fraction

thinking we know the future
doesn’t allow us to skip the present

knowing comes from experience
experiences come whenever they come

can't make them happen
we can only invite them

we are guided through life by experience
without logic or understanding

we are led through life
meeting people we should meet

putting effort where effort is required
failing at many things succeeding at some

ego thinks what is right is what feels safe
spirit thinks the opposite

if it makes "sense"
it probably isn't the right thing to do

one-eight-billionth
is not a very big fraction

yet there are medicines and poisons
that work in parts-per-billion

forget about hope
hope is fantasy about a future that doesn’t exist

stop hoping to be ‘normal’
stop trying to live a ‘normal’ life

stop wishing that what happened
would not have happened

be brave be patient
be adventuresome

happiness doesn’t exist
in rhetoric of the mind

it resides in doing some good
(no matter how fucked up you are)

© 2023 Raibeart Bruis