Mycelial Network by Ansel Cummings
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So at the weekend it was me that happened to the things i did...
I felt as though I was a part of a huge mycelial network
It took me back to an episode of the x-files
Mulder and Scully had been pulled underground and were slowly being eaten by a huge fungus.
In fact one of the current contestants in the category of largest living organism on the planet is a huge fungal network in America, it spans several kilometers in Oregon I believe, although I'm getting far less hung up on details these days, and I'm not sure that that's a bad thing, cos I'm really not convinced that any of this is REAL. Not in any real sense, or any meaningful way. Every time they woke up to what was happening to them, the fungus was really still digesting them underground, even though they were both convinced they had escaped and were back living their normal lives. The reality they thought they were living in, was just another fake dream, so real that they couldn't tell the difference.
I could feel the rest of the network out there, or in here, or whatever...
I was just a part of it, a tiny fibre in a giant micelial network
A mushroom poking up and out of the ground
The fruiting body of a giant organism
So is that the truth I've been searching for all this time?
Someone told me that we are aliens,
that struck a chord, I always used to think I was
That I'd been placed with my parents
Growing up in a human family
Or that they weren't mine at all really
Just the people who were bringing me up
More pieces of the puzzle coming together
Finding out more a little at a time, adding them up
Continuing to see a little more every time I venture out
Into the giant morass of experiences available to us when we try...
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What are the chances?
I keep seeing things in the press or wherever, saying that if you eat this or that it will increase your chances of a premature death by 100%... The problem with that is, instead of telling us the actual risks, if the chance is 1 in a billion or a million, that changes to 2 in a million. They are scare mongering and rather than tell us the actual probability of something happening they are presenting the information in a way that makes us think FUCK! I'd better stop / start eating / drinking not eating / drinking / doing whatever it is that they say.
It's all a load of bollocks, eat and drink healthily and have fun the rest of the time, take exercise regularly, you will feel better and whatever is going to happen to you will happen anyway.
We are really bad at recognising the probability of things anyway, mainly cos we're not all mathematicians
I'm certainly not, I failed maths three times, I got D, then D, then D, at least I'm consistent I spose
Let's all stop worrying about things so much, most of them don't apply to us anyway.
We're all gradually getting healthier, I don't want to live longer if it's in pain
We're getting to the point that our brains are giving out not our bodies
Like formula one, we're finding the tyres are the weak point
So let's all do the right things, and make sure not to
end up dementia victims, cos of the things we eat
the things we're not doing anymore in our life
like taking care of ourselves, reducing stress
having something to do, not hanging in there
not living in a home, just being a nuisance
dying a slow death without quality of life
get busy living not busy dying, allright?
I don't know where this is going
I think we've turned a corner
The pendulum has swung
now it's coming back
from one extreme
to the other
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Murder Murder Murder
This world has ruined the lives of many people, they have gone on to ruin and damage and destroy the lives of many more.
Pass it on, pass it on, pass it on. STOP! We need to be the ones who say I will not join them, I will not beat them.
I will make a difference and from now on things will change!
I think the news should report things on a need to know basis. Do I need to know about a murder somewhere in my own country, involving someone I don't know, and someone else I don't know?
Why do I have to hear about things that have nothing whatsoever to do with me, that are shocking yes, but newsworthy? Why am I not hearing about all the amazing things going on in this country, and indeed the world, that do interest me, and ultimately affect me? I feel sorry for the family of the victim of a murder, they deserve to be able to grieve in peace, not have reporters from every news agency following them around and digging up whatever they can find about the perpetrators, asking why? The answer is whatever the result of the courtcase suggests surely and in that case, the court will decide and the relevant people will know.
I have people around me who say things like "I find it interesting" or "I'd like to know why"
Jog on then, read your true crime books, delve deeply into why murderers murder
Read murder mystery novels, keep on plowing through news reports and papers
Things happen, people die, far less than they used to, cos we're becoming less violent
We don't need to protect ourselves from predators, in most nations, not animals anyway
There are bad people, there are litterers, thieves, all sorts of miscreants, shitting themselves
Pissing themselves, people who go out to hurt others, generally my life has been very safe
I've been hurt most by people close to me, friends who abused me, abused my trust
I don't think a stranger has ever done anything to me that I can remember now
So do I need to know the finer details of things that happen to others?
No not really, and it's not a lack of compassion, I hurt when I hear it
At the weekend I met friends of a young woman who is no longer with us
They were grieving, and yes they were asking why, but the hurt was obvious
I felt their pain and tried my best, feeling deeply for them, to ease their suffering
That isn't what happens in the news, it's sensationalism for the sake of selling papers
Or filling our t.v. time with the pain of people we will never know, will never meet
I'm trying to see why we should care, I know I have on occasion been touched
Watching coverage of the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake I was emotional
It connected with me, so I won't say that all news is bad or unecessary
Just wondering if the main headlines were the good things going on
Wouldn't we all have more to talk about and work towards?
Instead of going over the things we can't do anything about?
You see in the past we were running scared all the time
Lots of animals wanted to kill us, had reason to fear
Had reason to expect the worst, live with stress
Not now, yes there are possibilitie, in future
We may get struck by a comet and die
All of us,or a mega volcano whatever
In the meantime there's little point
In worrying over something
We can't do anything
About at all
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I heard my friend, telling me about telling someone else about her life
She was retelling all the sad stories, listing the tragedies, the pain
Then at the end, she realised just how lucky she's been
Putting her life into context, knowing she's alive
Has suffered yes, but ultimately triumphed
Do it, put your life into context
Find that suddenly it looks good
Can go forward, knowing it happened
Now you can forget it, have it as your anchor
Giving you the strength to move on, move past it
Go out there into the world with a renewed enthusiam
Things aren't that bad, rewrite your own story
Look at it in truth and see it as it is
Things aren't so bad, reach out
Let others know, fill them in
Smile it might never happen
If it does, keep going
Shit happens
Love
Jon
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