Plastic

2010-08-15T00:29:00.001-07:00

It's too plastic round here...the stench of it burning...the sound of it rustling...moving too fast for me to even glimpse...and when I do...its but a burnt out mammoth of plastic...nightmarish...I need to sit by my lake...I can't stand it anymore.

CONFUSING-SIMPLICITY

2009-05-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

A dialogue from the movie Blood Diamond:

"Solomon: You are how old?

Archer: Me? I'm 31.

Solomon: Do you have no wife?

Archer: No.

Solomon: ...no children?

Archer: No.

Solomon: ...and no home?

Archer: No.

Solomon: But you have money, yes?

Archer: No...some.

Solomon: ...but not enough?

Archer: No

Solomon: If ya get this diamond, you will have enough money, yes?

Archer: Yes.

Solomon: ...and you will get the wife and children.

Archer: Probably not, no.

[Solomon chuckles]

Archer: What?

Solomon: ...I'm confused.

Archer: Yeah? ...Makes two of us my bro. "

A home, a wife, children, food, clothing- basic necessities of "normal human existence". Simple- basic- yet, do we all achieve the basic needs? Or even after we get all of them what is it that we are running after? What is enough? What is fulfillment or satisfaction? What is the end? What is "being settled"?

We all know deep inside that - we don't know where we are heading. We all picture a home in the lush green fields blooming with yellow flowers and the chatter of birds and children..settled-ideal.

Yet we run...after money...after fame...after people...Do we even have enough time to sit and think of where we are headed? And in this wild race of God alone knows where the end point is- we loose- so much of ourselves- emptied , hollowed, hardened, being pushed, pushing others...we just run. Confusing and complicating to the core. Simplicity is just one picture hung on the overtly decorated living room of a house waiting to be made a home.

Prashantee

Plastic

CONFUSING-SIMPLICITY