Trying.

Dalai Lama


Melting Glaciers


Feeling a little low today. I guess the headlines I read when I wake up set the tone for the rest of my day. There is so much bad news. Everywhere. I love reading the news because it makes me feel informed, but it also has a tendency to make me very sad. I remember, on a daily basis, my own insignificance. I can't help but wonder if anything I could do would make a difference. I've decided that the best way to look at life, at least for me, is without a belief that you are guided. I spend too much time looking for the meaning in things, the truth, what's real. When you stop believing that everything is significant, you start seeing things in a more objective way. I feel my senses are heightened when I change my perspective like this. At the same time, the idea of being guided has always given me hope. Giving that up means accepting that I have no meaning in the grand scheme of things, and that my life is disposable.


But I read somewhere that true happiness is had when all hope is gone.