HI Shekhar.

"Being Human"

You tried so hard to be special -
To hide the ordinary in you

“Those” thoughts, “that” feeling,
“This” way of being
Were not allowed at your table

The trouble is –
It gets lonely dining alone

It’s not so bad to be human
To think and feel and love
Just like the rest of us

Face it – even done with style
Being human is messy business

Take off those white gloves
Get down on the ground with the other children on the block

Their innocence won’t allow them to pretend their days away,
Trying to be some perfect doll that never comes out of the box

A collectors item –
Is that what you want to be?

Too perfect to play with
Too distant to love
Above the silliness of life

It’s not so bad to be human
To feel our hearts pounding with joy, with passion –
With the fear that we’re not quite enough

Sure, being human is messy business
But that’s how we learn about love

Love, Kristin

Shekhar,
You are special and ordinary at the sametime. Giving yourself with your heart and love here on the intentblog with intent. What more ordinary or special you can be.

Namaste,
Venky

Shekhar:

I only just begun reading this blog and already your heart and writing has touched mine.

to me, that's a very special gift.

ordinary is overrated anyways.

Can your extraordinariness really be anything, but ordinary, Shekhar? ;)

Hey Shekhar: Your poem is helping me to understand a series of starnge dreams that have been occuring each night/morning over the last week.

I am only getting pieces of it each day--and yet I progress a little further in the locations of the dream and your poem is suddenly "clicking" the pieces into place, at least on an intuitive and feeling level.

About 12 days ago, I 'd guess, it was a Thursday morning--I woke up from the first of the series and recalled I suddenly seemed to appear on a mountain in San Diego County--above an area known as Lakeside.

I started walking down the gravel road and eventually caught a ride to a main paved road I am familiar with. Ususally in dreams, when one is going downhill--it is a sign that one is going further from the right spiritual direction--which is usually perceived as going uphill.

Even in the dream I knew where I was but I didn't know why I was there. A few days later, I found myself in the same area but a little further into the Mission Valley area of San Diego--not far from where I used to live, and along the same river that runs near the mountain area I started at.

This morning, I was even further along Mission Valley and just about to cross the river area very close to a golf course I used to overlook from a condo I lived in during the 80's.

Then your poem made me rise above the area and get a greater view of where I had come from in these dream sequences and where I "seemed" to be going towards--which was on the rim of this valley--the other side of Mission Valley--where I used to live as a real estate apprasier--and where things turned very dark with deadly intentions coming at me some 12 summers ago. I have posted about what went on then previously, but...

How symbolic your poem makes it--coming down from the mountain into the "valley" of commerce and civilization, first following the river and then heading across "it"--that being my mission in this area called Mission Valley--maybe the valley of darkness and evil--and the river may symbolize the river Styx? (death--like death of self or my past?).

It seems altogether too synchronistic that your poem is triggering these pieces in their symbolic way--as I am not currently feeling I am supposed to move back there--it is more symbolic of the phases and changes taking place deep in my internal life--it seems!!!

But thanks Shekhar--as always, your creative material stirs stuff in all of us.

Hope you have a good time in LA and let us know what all you are up to their--seeing the Chopras I hope--and giving "Dreamworks" a run for their money with Rumi and Siddhartha "guiding" you along in your next ventures! Dave

Diligently circling the mountain
as the sky opens her tender arms
with the ground blowing kisses,
eventually arriving at the gates of heaven
when God whispers,
“Jump and I will catch you.”

I think that most of us have something very special within us. It may take all our lives to find it. Real courage? Most of us use real courage to get from sunrise to sunset. Some in the world must have real courage 24-7 , if not they will die. I always thought of Faith and humility as real courage. It is hard to be ordinary in todays world. All the advertisment we see on television, movies , etc tell us we are ordinary. We see all the glimmer and sex and we think that is life. So many reach from the ordinary , strive for what they see. Only to find that it is a game. What is difficult for many is to understand that all we see isn't ordinary. It is one thing to want to get burnt by the fire, another thing to be glad we are past that.

Or did God say ...
"But first you must die."

Oops... I meant the little god and not the big God ... just sounded better when I used God instead of god in the quotes. Hey, I am still breathing...ahhhh :D This ego of mine is going to send me to hell ... then I will have to do this all over again!

Hi Shekhar

What makes you think that all human beings are not odinary or extraodinary for that matter?
Is it not the blinding ego that allows our minds to escape this truth?

Hi Shekhar

What makes you think that all human beings are not odinary or extraodinary for that matter?
Is it not the blinding ego that allows our minds to escape this truth?

I have no strange dreams to share. No insights into your feelings. However, the mountain, and other images bring to mind only the myth of sisyphus.

You would probably get along with Camus. First the suicide, and now the mountain.

Shekar,
You can be all these things at one time....fame, family, food, normalacy, you choose....when, where and with whom.....use the gifts you have to continue touching the world with your creativity, your films, your poetry, and be with family and friends too......juggle, that what you need to learn...juggling...it works! When you get down the mountain, you may miss the walk up the mountain again.....maybe somewhere is the middle is the place to go. Does this make sense?? Joanie

working on it...

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