Sunday, January 29, 2006

A written down conversation with my friend Jason

I was going through reorganizing my papers of writing again. This, by the way, is a task I don't think I'll ever quite finish but I tackle the piles once and a while, and sometimes... I actually throw some papers away. Woohoo!
Going through an old spiral notebook I found this wonderful conversation me and my friend Jason wrote back and forth to each other in a noisy bar one night.

Jason- What if creativity includes destruction and is that scary?
Me- Through destruction and chaos comes the new without being bound to the old. Like the
god Shiva... the god of destruction and creation.
J- But the destruction. How do you create when pain is caused from it? Is the joy worth the
pain? or should we simply be at peace and- just be?
M- We have to go through the pain, breathe in to it and through it to release it. You can't
ignore it. Bury it and it will still be there. You have to pull the pain out, examine it.
See where it's coming from, let it go. The cobwebs must be cleared to realize your full
potential.
J- How, then, do you create a new world? The pain seems abundant. Perhaps by- well, I don't
know. It's only personal commitments and paths that I see to take. Writing this means that
I'm limiting these thoughts to words on a page. So it seems that they destroy what is seen
as creativity. Or is this process both? And now these words are meaningless.
M- Words destroy creativity?
I watched Farenheit 9/11 and it rocked me to my core. Very terrible things are happening
in this world we co-created and it only feeds me with a stronger sense of purpose to create a
world more peaceful and CREATE HEAVEN on earth, because as it stands we live in hell.
Globally but most times individually.
J- This means world destruction to me.
M- We may very well see a judgement day, but in the end I think it is self-judgement that
destroys us.
J- And this is cool. But how to create a path towards peace with as little fluctuation or pain?
M- You shouldn't fear pain. That is a tough question, because at this point we are in a fragile
atmosphere. The economy is weak, the deficit is great, a horrible war... A great change in
balance could rock the world. And that is something that worries me, the fragility of our
environment, but it gives me resolve to strengthen myself more.
J- Do you ever feel like people can read your mind?
M- No, usually I'm busy reading everyone else's.
J- Yeah, I thought so!

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