Gesundheit

 

Throughout history – within all cultures – things have been in disarray, economies have wobbled on the brink of collapse, people have starved while others have prospered and man has gazed up at the stars while small boys have looked down watching an ant carry a bit of leaf. Some have even read these few sentences believing I was getting to some philosophical point. I am not. I could no sooner sum up the status of a society as figure out the interlocking folds within a Kleenex box. However, I have sneezed and in so doing have grabbed hastily for the next Kleenex in the sequence; suggesting of course that I comprehend the necessity for structure, the intelligence required for engineering and the social awkwardness experienced when systems fail. All in all I am in awe of those around me; those who are skilled and those lacking, the ones who are knowledgeable as well as those who flounder. I have lived my life outside of the control group, neither studying nor being studied. I have simply wandered through the pages of Life’s book occasionally gleaning a modicum of understanding and yet I have no manageable concept of the storyline. I am a seat warmer without a chair. The orchestra is tuning up for music that will forever be foreign to me. Such is the fate of an observer. My view of Life is simply that; a stream of images, sounds and events passing through the same time period as myself, without a specific unified direction but all interlocked – allowing the next event in the sequence to pop up as needed.



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