D A Y T W O: Thursday 26th February
Most days
it can feel a bit like we are all just treading water, but in an endless
field of thick, ripe horse manure. ‘Shit soup’ as it is more commonly
known. This
term may come across as a rather vulgar and negative view of
the modern world in
which we live, but it is actually quite the opposite, uplifting
even, with a delicate
sense of comic tragedy about it. Daily human life could easily be portrayed as
the
same old ‘shit soup’ with a slightly different hint of lemon
or thyme thrown into the
wildly delirious mix of our tangled emotions.
All of a
sudden, while we are busy treading the detritus of the world’s bowel
movements, a complete stranger may smile at us and
acknowledge our presence, a
beaming ray of golden sunlight that washes down upon us from
the upper atmosphere
and shows us in a fleeting instant our enduring human
ability to remain positive in the
face of a maelstrom of humdrum and adversity. Our own personal ‘shit soup’ is
momentarily forgotten and begins to taste more like a
warming oxtail broth, or
whatever flavour takes our fancy at the time.
We all live
in the comforting knowledge that despite everything that has and
could happen to us at any time, we are all constantly
sampling each others ‘shit soups’
as we interact with each other every day. It is this knowledge that empowers within
us a universal feeling of human spiritual bonding that
manifests itself in an
infinitesimal number of forms:-
Love, Hate, Pride, Envy, Jealousy, Suffering, Happiness,
Tragedy, Comedy…….
And as the
list grows longer with each passing human year it is passed on and
changed, as indeed we all change, on our journey through the
generational abyss of
human endeavour.
Does this reflect your own inner self?
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