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This is a look into the spiraling kaleidoscopic funnel of self induced imagery created by our version of the story. One life, one goal; destined to be what we do not know. Hopes are that we become something close to great. We let our fears play our cards as our hands are dealt by hands we are told created us. Blind we faithfully follow our invisible leader that proof can only be identified by a consciousness that we cannot define. This image is said to be perfect. We are told that perfection is unreachable. An individual image created by our own perceptions. With age we develop and become mature to an extent. Extents that are held limited only by our own self manifested boundaries that have no place on any map known to the science of man. The geography of the human image cannot be defined by any dictionary or put into any words that would give justice to such an illusion.

Reality is an illusion. Real life is an illusion. Illusions are real yet are seemed to be perceived as if to be a trick that one’s mind plays or a prank that one plays on the mind. Self induced by ingestion of mood altering substances that an illegal ban has society, which is in itself an illusion, forming its own image of their use to be taboo. Do not enter. No trespassing. Slow down. We fight the urge to rebel with the help of judgment that has been sculpted by consequences. Justice is sought out by man. Man is unjust. Just is this, what it is just isn't just. Justice is served in forms. Door to door has been replaced by picture to picture and uploaded onto a television screens with a governing body that filters what we can and cannot see.

What we are told is what they tell us. We are limited by censorship to keep us in the loop. This loop is closed to keep us all spinning in its three-hundred and sixty degree, boiling bath of drugged delusions and our very own individuality is collected to keep us all thinking similar thoughts so that we agree to the rules and obey. If you are not normal you are considered a threat that they discourage. People are appalled with what they do not understand and people gang up on the outcast with harsh words of racial spew that reeks of superiority when they act better than the people that they themselves are told to treat as equals.

Karma is considered a threat and used as a weapon of self righteous hate in the heat of despair and forgotten with the litter polluted when nobody was looking. Integrity is an ideal and also used as a weapon of fear. Examples are set by poor role models that have fancy cars that they crash when they waste everything because they are the exception to the rule. It's okay. I can do this. I'm having a bad day so I can take it out on the world. Entitled to a fortune of false profits that the Nasdaq cashed in on the stiles of the blue collars we wear when we look with wonder at the blank space that the middle class used to be in and scratch our heads. The rich man with the new car gets the best seat and the valet gets stiffed when they return from their diamond club seats impaired by the drink that took them for a ride that they paid for with our money. They employ illegal immigrants and pay them the bottom dollar and loan them money to pay for their doctor bill and keep them held hostage by painting a picture of gold that when they when finally bought it they made sure was on sale. Containers are shipped by your world that carry merchandise that is packaged by third world employees who are sweating on shops that are owned by big business men how have multiple identities that are kept hidden off shore while they launder money with the wash board that is now called the national debt.

Integrity gets put inside boxes that we purchase and are taped shut to hide the horrific truth. I won't live to see the day that the water is polluted so badly that we get sick and only the lucky few survive. The ozone will last long enough for me, it's not like a little bit will hurt. Just this once is repeated a million times an hour as nobody's looking. Secrets are kept by best friends that sleep with your wife as they spend the money you've earned while you eat out of a sack lunch and drink coffee from a thermos that you consider your faithful companion. Faith is lost as trust is paper thin causing the assumption of guilt. They shut up because closed lips don't get fed lies but the white lie is covered in chocolate and spoon fed to suckers that get the shaft and bottle up their anger until they explode. Feeling like victims we tell sob stories on the bar stool that the small business owner pays for with money they were born with. They say the next round is on me and then watch you drown your sorrows by throwing your money away at his dive bar that you feel like is your home away from home. We call it the water hole and we make excuses out of shame as red rover sends his next customer on over.

Bells ring to create an illusion of the big win to keep the loony’s in the bin. This works well as the shrunken wallets of the drunken man shrivels up like his lifeless fingers that are found washed up on a shore of sorrow that suicide claimed another loyal customer. Micro give a shits are the attitudes that appear when you need help. Assholes are like the air you breathe and are just considered to be part of life. We join in and become what we swore we wouldn't. We don't even notice the change as we become like them. We are like sponges that absorb the traits that our peers possess and it challenges the change we wish to be in this world. We take the easy path that is paved in and beaten down by the footsteps of the, it-crowd, and we walk with an extra pep in our step because we feel like we are cool. The open bar tab is paid for by bullying the less sociable people that we make fun of because they aren't us. Little do we know is that they are us.

They are them and we are all them to us. We are all us to them. Isn’t it funny how that stigma is a reality when the different forms of life tend to be on the same team such as a heard of antelope. It seems that humans are the exception to this rule as we are divided into different classifications and do not all look out for each other. Families are laid out like trees and as the branches separate to carry the weight of the tree and they get farther and farther apart as the tree grows with the help of Mother Nature and Father Time. People, like trees, are born into families and they are divided into similar segments like branches of a tree. Over time and with new connections, these families drift apart as other families branch out and unite with matrimonial relationships that are too complicated to define by any one definition.

We are all different. However, we are all born with this consciousness that magically governs our existence. Collectively we can connect with the power of a simple dream. These connections have potential that we are unable to define as we do not know what we are truly capable because we are all considered to be unique and each special. We are told what to believe and by our curiosity of nature we seek out on our lifelong journey to find out the true meaning of life. What is this life and where did it all originate?

We put faith into the stories of our ancestors and often follow a spiritual path of organized religion. Told that we are only capable of a certain amount of things that we unknowing put limits on ourselves. As we are developing we believe what they say because we don't know anything different. As we age and mature mentally and physically we begin to realize things that people may have missed or not told us. We often feel like we were betrayed by our teachers and we tend to rebel in our own unique ways that may be physical or mental or both. This could be as simple to as a shadow of doubt of what we have been told to believe. Why is it this way? Answers to questions cannot always be found by asking. Life has a way of revealing itself in ways that you could never have imagined. Age is a force that over time gifts us with wisdom that is unable to be described. It's a feeling that is just there. It's an illusion that you have created through your own perception of all life has to offer. Time will change you and you will realize that you cannot change time.

Time is an illusion that could be a tick-tock or a moment that you smile about a happy memory. Time is now; past and present and future. I would say that the past and the future last the same amount of time and the present is a passing whisper that is unable to be captured. The present is every second of every minute that you enjoy for what is only an instant and it is gone before you even realize it was there and it may not even be able to be. I am present in myself yet I am unable to present any evidence that the past doesn't happen at the same time as the future and that the present doesn't even exist. Proof doesn't convict the presence of the here and now with conclusive evidence that can prove the existence beyond a reasonable doubt so we the jury of the past look to the judges of the future and we find the defendant; not guilty.

This can only mean that the present time is completely innocent. The only thing that is perfect is the illusion of the present time. In the past you can find factual events to convict actions and place blame with concrete evidence. The future is unable to predict. Predictions are simply a means to desperation and worry that could be described as a waste of the present. The future steals from the present and the past robs the joy from freedom. Live here and live now in the present. Find out why you are hear by letting your beliefs free from their prisons.

These illusions of what we believe are sculpted by the models of our peers. It is our responsibility to create an image of society that we can all look to with a confidence that can only be achieved by being what you know in your heart is the right way. Mistakes are going to happen. Live and learn; limit your regrets by letting go of the illusions that govern our conscious in a negative way. Nothing is wrong if nothing's right. Without the good there cannot be evil. Live in the positive images and stray from the negative outlook of doubt. You are the change. You are the most important person in the world. So am I. We are the very person we see when we close our eyes and picture the perfect person.

What are you willing to do to be the best you that you can be? You have the power to be your perfect. Limits are only what you have created. Break free from the chains that have cuffed you and held you prisoner by the society that you have created in your own illusionary image. Imagine the imaginary images you have created. Now remodel these images by being the image you wish the world to be. It only takes a second to close your eyes and to see the beauty that lies inside of your soul. You have so much good inside of you that you can change the world. Just close your eyes and take a peek. It's a surprise worth more than all the money on the world. You have the gold at the end of the rainbow right inside of you. It's always been there. It's ok to cash in on your fortune.

Now is the time! Present is the time that can change the future and create an image of hope that you can smile when you think back to your past. The present is a gift. Your presence is the present that is the gift that you were given at birth. Every second in the present is a gift to be cherished and gratitude is the attitude of perfection. Presently you are the perfect gift. You are perfect! That's the answer! You only need to look inside of your own presence to be presented with the gift of life's answer that you have searched your whole life for. You are the answer. I am the solution. We are forever.

We are the leaders of the world and we are the perfected image of our creator and our spirits are proof of our higher power that we have sought. We are the God that we imagine that we hold as perfect. We are like clay and we are each here to mold the image of life that we seek to find from the moment we are born. We are the world. We are the fireworks that form the joy that we seek and life is the celebration that we are gifted with every second we are alive. You are the perfect gift and worth all the money that man has made and our false beliefs are silly when you realize the truth. Our faith is in man and man is an illusion that we each are responsible to create. Be yourself. Be what you were made to become. Be the best you that you can imagine. The only thing you have to do is close your eyes and look inside of yourself. You are the answer. Together we are the solution. We are the eternal life we seek. We create the heaven that we seek. Heaven is inside of you and you can only find it if you be your best you! I know you’re in there. I'll show you and then you can show me! Together we are the power that is greater than the images that we have of our picture perfect dream world. Congratulations! We found the answer! It's a no brainier! It's as easy as closing your eyes.

*It is Ambivaliss. It is possible.

-20150


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