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| Gorey understands... |
There
are some days when I really truly don’t have a clue. I seriously wonder what on
earth I’m doing. I look in the mirror
and wince. I think about the rest of my
life and wonder…why? Why?
It’s not depression. At least I
don’t think so. It’s simply a total complete lack
of comprehension. Nothing makes any
sense.
In
Greece I had reached a sort of peace. Before
that, I’d tried pushing; tried again and again to make things happen; to prod
and poke the universe into some semblance of (what seemed to me to be) order.
It hadn’t worked. Just left me exhausted and sad at my failure. I couldn’t figure out what it was all
about. But in Greece, watching the
waves, I kinda got the Zen thing. I was content just to let go, to allow what would
be to be. To let life unfold whichever way it so wished. I decided that there were no choices to be
made. And that was fine.
Yet
some days it isn’t fine. I guess it’s
allowable to have bad days. I just
freaking wish I didn’t think so much. Wish I didn't feel so much.
‘I
don’t get it,’ says Adrian frequently.
Not now, exactly (sort of), because he’s not here (he’s in a five star
hotel in St Petersburg with a butler…actually this does make me smile). ‘I
mean, why d’you think about these things?’ he has said, frequently (and
doubtless will say again). And, come to think of it,
given I wrote this some time back but didn't post it until now (?), he isn’t even there now –
he’s on his way to Norwich. Possibly. Depending on when you read this, of course.
But
that’s it, isn’t it? What? Where? When?
As everything we think of as real is just energy converted into signals
converted into a mental representation of experience? As time is purely created in the temporal
lobe of the brain and is not really objective in any way, shape or…time? As infinity is about everything happening all
at once? And love? Simply a response created in the mind by
chemical reactions in the brain? Based
on what? What do we mean by love? Is it simply a crutch? A panacea? A story we tell ourselves?
Adrian’s
right of course. Thinking, puzzling,
probing…just makes us unhappy.
‘Why
do you put yourself through it?’ he says.
‘Don’t
you ever think about this stuff?’ I say. In wonderment.
‘Nope,’
he says.
I
need a head transplant.
Anyhow.
Today I walked the dogs up to the hill fort.
And for a few minutes the sun was shining and the world looked very
beautiful. I sat down on a log and drank
in green. And I believed in the moment, in
just being, in being conscious, present, connected, in this precise second. And thought, why wait until I get home to
meditate – why not do it here and now?
So I did. Breathing in
green. Trying not to think about how the
world is really colourless and odourless and tasteless. And it was fine. Just fine.
And
then Asbo bit me. J
