I had a dream the other night, a sort of., revelation. almost life changing dream. but not exactly yet kind of. just made me think.
i remember a few years back i had a dream that i was writing an essay on buddhism. strange since i know nothing about the subject but i remember how vivid it was in the dream and how i knew exactly what i was talking about. sadly, i woke the next day remembering nothing that i had written except for the fact that i was so sure of what i was doing in my dream.
this was not the case a few nights ago. i remember everything. every goddamn word. but what was so funny was the fact that i had been thinking a lot about it for a while. balance. a dream about balance and the definition of what balance really is. i cant write the entire, dream , it was that long (6 pages written) but i can write the basic gist and what was said to me.
basically what happened in my dream was that a worldwide law was made; EVERYTHING had to be in balance. everything. even physically. symmetry was extremely important. but i remember someone explaining the law to me and how despite the fact it was made to keep the peace and straighten things out, it was in reality extremeeeeely corrupt.
(writing this more or less how it was said in my dream, sorrry if it sounds like an interview..but yeah, this is what happened..)
random guy: A law has been passed just recently about total balance. but its completely corrupt.
me: hows that even possible?
rg: because complete balance is almost impossible and people misunderstand what balance really is. for example, lets say a person is somehow betrayed by someone else. they might think that a way to balance things out is by doing the same, or doing something bad in return when in reality that is not balance.. In order for there to be balance something good has to be done to make up for the bad. But that is not everyone's belief and a surprising amount of people confuse vengeance with balance. "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" had nothing to do with balance. Balance is stability and a happy medium. Something meant to eliminate any flaws, something that promises an even line. Its a matter of give and take.
Me: But aren't there times when the laws of balance don't apply and you need to be ruthless? Isn't this a rigid way of loooking at things?
rg:Its not rigid because despite the fact it just became a law on paper, its more of an unwritten law and we have the strength to make it apply to our own thoughts and needs. And as long as we have that strength, nothing can ever be rigid. We're all selfish at one point or another, its so easy to say, well ive had a hard time in life, nothing ever goes my way, i can screw someone over for once. even if you dont have any bad intentions. for example, you need food to feed your family and youre applying for a job, but someone else is too who is in a similar position. if you get the job, things may balance out for you, but what about the other person? where does that leave them? In your book, things have balanced, the bad was finally replaced with the good and it wasn't done through 2 negatives equaling a positive. but your own balance isnt necessaily theres is it? theyll have to search for their own..
anyway, the dream went on, but im dead serious, this is what happened. pretty intense for a dream. who dreams philospically?crazy.
dreams are just plain fucked.
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