Sunday, March 20, 2016

LIVING ON LONGING

WHO AM I?
A first visit to this blog lasts 15-seconds, enough to read a Tweet-length of words. If visitors don’t see what they’re longing for, they go! About now, 140 characters.
     What are they looking for? What are they not finding?
     Search Engine Optimization (SEO) says “tag” your blog with “popular” words, meaning words people are looking or longing for. Words about what they lack, words about themselves! We want a little more me in >144 character increments.
     Our heart has a 50 – 90 beats per minute systole and diastole. We drink in our venous blood, filled with the needs and longings of our body. Lungs oxygenate blood with our breath of life, nourishment from our gut. Receiving. Sensing. Longing. Revelation. Our hearts and our bodies live on longing.
     The Oracle at Delphi asked a mini-Tweet-length question spawning deep, deep introspection: “Oh man, know thou thyself!” We long to know ourselves. Who do I say I am? Wasn’t it The Christ who said, “Who do they say I am?”
We long to be sacred to one another. Even the Pope asks a total stranger to “Pray for me!” Does this mean the Pope knows that people usually don’t pray for the Pope? Probably not if we think that a Pope is perfect and doesn’t need to be on anybody’s prayer chain.
     What are we not finding? What is the missing piece we are longing for? To somehow connect in some way?

WHY AM I HERE?
We think we live our lives from past to future. We are conscious during our days and so therefore we think that our life moves from morning to night. Our life is a seamless chain of events that make perfectly good sense and appears as an orderly sequence of cause and effect.
     If you review your life backwards, starting from this present moment and going toward the beginning of the day, you will see that, every night you sleep. While you sleep, there are hours of incoherence and unconsciousness. Hours that don’t fit in the sequence of your consciousness, but, your mind so longs for consistency that it conveniently overlooks the incoherence. We do this during waking hours, too. We make up facts to fit our biases and overlook the reality that does not fit with the way we believe the facts should be ordered.
     If you think backwards and review each day in this fashion, in reverse (called a ruckshaƱ), you may be surprised to see that there is much more going on in your day than you are aware of when you whiz by in your ordinary consciousness.
     You might even find one of two of the missing pieces you’re longing for. Here comes instantaneous doubt. But, why not? After all, if you knew where to find what you’re longing fotr, you’d go there rather than fooling around here, right?

WHAT DO I WANT?
Our feelings are landfills of 15-second longings, fears and disappointments. We long to be touched, to find meaning, to end the aloneness, to be sacred to one another. Yet, we fear what we do not know, have not experienced. We have not trusted for so long we are weak and doubt arises instantaneously.
     But, rhythm replaces strength. A rhythm is born between writer and reader, between writer and the imaginary world, between reader and them selves.
We live on the longing for one another, you and I - even though we have never met. You wished that this blog was what you were longing for, otherwise you would not have invested 15-seconds. If you come back, you will spend another 15-seconds and then leave, disappointed in one way yet expecting nothing less. But, hang on!
Rhythm, no matter how insignificant or meaningless, might of itself be another missing piece you are longing for. Come back and fail again, do that often enough, and the rhythm may become the heart of a new relationship based on mutual longing.
“Live, long, and prosper.”

© Copyright 2016, Jean W. Yeager
All Rights Reserved

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