Ok, so this is an essay about life. I know you guys are wondering, what life am I talking about? This one. The life you wake up and your brush teeth to, pop your pimples, take a piss, a shower, cologne, jump in the car or the bus and ride to school. This is the life where you fall in love, and sometimes get lost in the beauty of the scenery. Have you ever really seen the sunset and become so engrossed in the sheer delightfulness of being, you forget your own existence, all there is and all you see is the sunset. This is the life of flustered feelings, someone makes a snide comment and suddenly you’re overwhelmed with anger! In my personal life, a moment of extreme importance came to me when I was in the fourth grade. I was on the playground with one of my best friends, near the tetherball. He smashed the tetherball with his fourth grade might, and it flew full speed into my face. I covered myself, trying to hide my tears, because it was a painful. And then, I heard laughter. My best friend, and the onlookers, were laughing! My sensations were drowned in a flush of chemicals, I was angry! The only thing I wanted to do at that moment was whack this kid in the face with the totality of my strength. It’s an unconscious happening, you don’t really decide to fight somebody, it just happens. Somehow, a strand of calmness kept me from fighting him that day.

So, back to life…

Growing up in this world of ours naturally gives rise to various myths and ideas surrounding the nature of our reality. The ecstasy of birth gives rise to faded memories, and then comes the chaotic normalcy of present life. Waking up tired, living full in stomach but empty in heart. Criticizing this or those happenings, and falling deeply in love with others. Governed by the time entity, we struggle with the fleeting moment while taking solace in a glorious future. There is an external world and an internal world, and our lives are spent searching for harmony between the two. We see objects in the outer world as worth in the inner world. Struggle after struggle after struggle and we still feel we’re missing a piece of the pie!

Attempting to establish a uniform and orderly understanding of this world, man created science. Science is really what’s up! This knowledge gives us a basis on which to predict natural phenomena. These predictions are based on “laws”, we don’t know who or if anyone or thing laid down these laws, but we do know they exist. Those curious beings set out “testing” reality, and thus illuminating the way things should happen. If given the circumstances of a happening thing, through rigorous calculation of existing laws, we can predict how it happens, and where it happens to. Isn’t science wonderful? Science indeed gives us considerable knowledge, and yet, even this knowledge doesn’t quite satisfy. There is a reason for this; science documents the ebb and flow of phenomena. Ebb and flow doesn’t give us much ease of mind, we’d much prefer a concrete existence. Thus arises heaven, a wonderful place where cause, effect, and science have no existence. We can eat McDonald’s cheeseburgers and fries all day and not gain a pound! We can smoke marijuana, jump off a cliff, relish our beautiful bodies and the bodies of others, and bask in the glory of Him (or Her). In life, when you get high, the comedown is implied, but not in heaven. In heaven there is no comedown! This is quite a glorious future!