No Such Thing

It has to be intriguing to the aliens. 

"Hey Bob, watch this!"

"What's up?"

"These primitive things created a strictly regimented structure called Time. Fairly intelligent, I'll give them that...but twice a year, some of them literally, in a ritual like manner, EAT AN HOUR, and throw it back up 6 months later."

But they don't believe in magic.

They call it "science" here. 

Just keep an eye on them. 

Collectively

 All the thoughts we can think have been thought

All the words we know of have been writ and said

All the sounds we can hear have been made

All the sights that can be seen have been seen

Everything has been imagined & dreamed

All the wars have been fought

Everything has been won 

Everything has been lost

Someone always claims to know the cost

and maybe they do but they'd never tell me or you

They say pressure turns coal to diamonds

Immense pain has been felt

Living a hard life here makes you shine somewhere else

We don't see much at all

There is more here than meets the eye

We only see what the brain thinks we can handle

That's the why and how of survival

Some see or hear a little more

some a little less

If we could all know what everyone else knows

Maybe we could get out of this mess

but what about the individual?

All the thoughts we can think have been thought...

Say it a different way

 Nobody knows more than they believe.

Not even a legend in my own mind...

 I've been doing my mental farewell tour for the last several years, stopping by old bowling centers that I won tournaments in. 

There is no fanfare. No pictures. No social media. 

Just memories of the center, the workers, the other contestants, the food, smells, sounds and the trips themselves.

If the centers don't exist anymore, did any of it happen? 

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Doing spring cleaning in the mind castle as I prepare for retirement and living there full time. 

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Thoughts guarded. Always. Have to watch my mouth. 

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Never say anything interesting to someone who didn't ask anything thoughtful or just doesn't give a damn about you and yours. Just give them drivel. It is a way of sharing your mutual disrespect. Even better if they just think you are an idiot.

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When I leave a room, the sunshine and happiness are leaving with me. It is just how it works. Deal with it.

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Not my best post. Not the worst. Read on, if you dare.

 You poor, misguided fools.

.rof gnikool era uoy eman emas eth fo draziw tneicna eth ton ylbaborp ma I

What day is it, really?

 Yesterday, my wife said it was Friday, but I told her it was Saturday. To be honest, I checked my phone for clarification after I said that.

I'm not even a believer in this Time stuff. Who am I to correct someone when it comes to their faith?

If we lost all ways to track "Time", would we live forever, free of the trap, or would we go mad from withdrawal symptoms?  

We are such control freaks, subjugated by the concept of Time.

Time is probably not The Good Guy.

Alive.

There should be a long explanation of my life philosophy here. ( Why force it on someone?)

I may continue to leave it in clues in my writings/gibberish, for those that want to figure it out. 

I know of only a few that get it. A few think they do.

Life is full of mystery and enlightenment for those who embrace it. 

That wasn't funny at all. Maybe tomorrow...

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Saw the family this weekend. Been a year since we drove that far. That is too long.

 We probably should have stopped a few times and got out and walked a little, but the threat of foul weather loomed and I didn't want to upset our neighbors by coming in so late. Straight through was the only option. 

This is still not funny. 

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If you can't enjoy being a complete failure, you have no chance of being successful.