Writing As A Form Of Therapy

[Zoe7]

@Silenus

and yet the government continues to fund themselves beyond what the 'normal'  person could ever dream of affording. Corrupt - yes, overindulged - yes, disconnected from reality - yes. 

...and people with MI are often called INSANE - shoes should be on the government's feet (but theirs would cost more than the average wage!)

[Silenus]

Thank you @Zoe7

I'm an odd fish... it's very pleasant to meet fellow swimmers in these far-removed and interesting rapids...

I look forward to hearing from you... we all have much of worth and wisdom to share with each other...

A universal call for all of us... we are all unique, with amazing individual perspectives that, when shared, have the potential to switch the light on in someone else's darkest cave...

What a gift this is... loving compassion... sharing and caring... together we stand...

[Zoe7]

It often feels that fish like us are constantly trying to swim against the tide and then being labelled as rebelllious or non-conformers. What a wonderful world we would live in if more fish said enough is enough - swim with me. The more fish that band together to try and conquer the ever moving waters, the more likely one is to get through and say - 'It can be done'.

[Silenus]

Another mind dump... hahaha...

Time is an illusion... humans do not currently perceive time in the correct fashion... they are enslaved by rather limited views and beliefs about time... believing these things about time then gives the very concept of time as something real much more credence...

Sadly, humans are mistaken in their beliefs all too often... beliefs in gods... beliefs in political ideologies... beliefs in money... beliefs in nations and empires... with all of this belief floating around, it must be so very hard to actually see the reality beneath it all...

This... this is humanity's greatest mistake... their projections of self hide the reality beneath it all... consequently, a lot of erroneous thinking and action takes place... so much wasted time and energy, devoted to idle beliefs and lazy intellect and unnecessary pain...

This human belief in the existence of time... they come up with ways to measure it, to label it, to point at the ticking and the tocking and to say "Look! Time is passing! Time exists!"... a radioactive isotope decays... "Look! Time is passing! Time exists!" they repeat... through the course of our lives, we grow up, we grow old and we die... "Look! Time is passing! Time exists!" we acknowledge...

Humanity's conveniently simple linear understanding of time is very flawed... it is a source of much discomfort to the species...

All of this discomfort, based on a concept that doesn't even exist...

The only moment that actually exists is this Now moment... can we all agree on that..? Do I hear an "Amen to that brother!"..?

There is no "time"... there is only Now... time does not exist... Now, however, does...

The human compulsion to split reality into past, present and future is a terrible distraction from the present... they worry about the past and they worry about the future, and all this time, their eyes are elsewhere and their thoughts are occupied...

That's not the way to deal with a problem now, is it..? It sounds like a rather odd way of doing things...

To have problems that need attention, right here and right Now, and to be distracted and discomfitted by two entire imagined realities... the past and the future... these concepts, they spring from an insane mind... a sane mind would focus on the problems at hand, and work to solve the problems without such distractions...

Instead, human imagination triples the amount of work needed to be done by the thinking feeling mind... which is kind of the point of the thinking feeling mind... to keep getting on with lots of thinking and feeling...

The human mind loves to think and feel... it craves it like no other drug on Earth... and so it creates imaginary concepts out of thin air, so that it can gorge itself on thoughts and feelings...

The human imagination has given you thousands of gods... the concept of time... ways of social organisation as an imagined group...

All of these things, imagined...

Even worse, humans then get so caught up with their imaginations... their imagined pasts and their imagined futures... they do not see the very real present, the very real Now...

This is what insanity sounds like...

Hahaha...

If we want to get really deep, it's all imagined... after the event has happened, it is gone... memory is an illusion... all of it is imagined... hahaha... every single memory in our minds... imagined... every single thought... imagined... every single feeling... imagined... hahaha...

This very concept of self... imagined...

[Former-Member]

hello @Silenus

strange i should come across this today.

have increased medication to assist in alleviating bad thoughts and increased sleeping tablet last night to make sure had uninterrupted sleep.

sleep has been very erratic lately.

result: eyes felt like they were attempting to scramble out of their sockets. weird dreams yet again. today fatigued.

so on finding your poem and reading it. I felt yes someone gets it.

thank you

[Former-Member]

hello @Silenus

the ego

[Silenus]

Hello @Former-Member 🙂

Lovely to hear from you. Thank you so much for connecting.

Sleep... wow... such an important part of my coping strategies... I guard my sleep like a legion of Spartans... being bipolar... if I sleep well, I live well...

Hugs and happy vibes beaming your way... 🙂

[Former-Member]

Hi @Silenus,

the last poem caught me off guard but very thought provoking. 

Its been lovely to 'see' you around the forum. 

Not sure if I'll catch you before Christmas but I wish you peaceful and happy times for the coming week.

sending many hugs 💜🤗

[Former-Member]

hello @Silenus

Thank you

 another caring,compassionate mortal on this site.

interesting in responding to you I felt your creativity pop out of the page.

my thoughts were not of a page on a website but of many stars in a sky

we are the shining stars in the sky out of reach and only seen by some

i would love to be able to write but dont have the confidence.

i have so much stuff buzzing in my head.

if you are willing and able I wonder if you wouldn't mind writing something along the lines of us all being stars in the sky shining at different times, travelling at different speeds in different directions, seen by some, others at different times.

im not even sure if i am overstepping the mark of rules on here actuallly, there is no pressure at all. only if it resonates with you and is something "you would like to do" ,

I am sure there are many other stars on here hoping to shine brighter and become more visual who might be able to share in the feeling that I am feeling now.

stay safe my friend

[Silenus]

Hi @Former-Member 🙂

Inspiring words... thank you for your gifts... you are indeed already a talented writer...

I quote your own words...

"we are the shining stars in the sky out of reach and only seen by some"

^ THAT!!!

Oh my... that fired the "Truth" centres in my consciousness... thank you...

You have the suffering glorious soul of a writer... I covet your words, and wish that I had been blessed with writing them...

Again... thank you @Former-Member