My Sandbox

A pen and an ax

February 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hopefully this makes sense to someone- let me know if it does

I have an ax and a pen to solve my lifes purpose. The difficulty I find is that I am only given weapons, with no idea of a purpose. I have no idea where to go nor what to do. Should I sit, and fight off those impede on my territory? Or should I give up the idea of a territory and explore what I can not claim? For in a bigger view, what is possession? On a day to day basis, possession seems to be the key to survival but outside of that I find it to be quite confining. Decisions are made by what we have to loose instead of moral grounds. We shut down when we have close to nothing. I was given a pen and an ax, so I will always have something. So I struggle to move, as a tool or weapon without purpose or a cause, is merely a weight of burden to carry that can not be shed. So then to be successful is two fold. Find your tool’s purpose so that you can have purpose. Then again I do not think purpose is necessarily ours to have. I think it is for others to appreciate, therefore by faith we must come to accept it exists. We as humans are a social entity, thus an individual’s purpose is hardly individual at all. If I am to accept this perspective then I must conclude that we are wanderers. Fear normally comes with the term wanderers but why must we be lost in order to wander? If we wander together, at what point would we want to be anywhere else than where we are at that present moment?

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