The Downfall
All comes and then... it goes. Cycles are a way of creation, there is no 'escaping' it. Opposition requires conflict which brings about challenges which must be overcome. Living in the world of duality requires pain and suffering as well as joyous jubilance. It's a roller coaster ride almost everyone willingly signs up for and then magically, regrets. Oh the pain and suffering! Poor me. *Sob*
Extracting one's self from the battlefield is not meant for nor even desired by many of its participants. Trying to pull a fish out of water so that it may have a better life is preposterous but believe it or not many continue to try, over and over again. It's my way or the highway.
In it's reflection, creation exemplifies all.
Chose your poison, passion or whatever. It all comes down to the same thing. Experience.
It's amazing that we can become the effect of that which we create. Ignorance, in this case, becomes bliss. There are some things which we refuse to acknowledge so that our perceived reality may become apparent. No one can fall into a trap of their own making unless the assumption is embraced that stupidity is inherent. It's quite the opposite.
We all have a role in the orchestra called life and living. Some find comfort in one section or another at some time or another but make no mistake, it's all the same. Playing is in our nature. But even this is serious business1.
All the efforting to reach some imagined state is fruitless.
You are already home.
But please don't stop all the efforting on my account. Please continue to your heart's content because time was made just for you and there is an endless supply. Turn over every rock, peek behind every corner and look in and at every shadow. It was what you were made to do.
That sounds like fun2.
Getting off the hamster wheel is not about achievement, it's about letting who you are come to the fore instead of being what you think you are3.