losing centredness....

yet another childhood friend is landing at a detox centre...so many biting the dust...relationships collapsing, drug, alcohol and sexual escapades going berserk and outta control.....people paying prices they had never imagined they would have to pay....

the key to succumbing is in "escaping" unconsciously.....not daring to face what life has to offer and making choices as a "response"...not being able to relate to what life has to offer...and choosing to escape by numbing ourselves....somewhere shirking responsibility....for our own joy and happiness...cribbing about the world and the people there....quick to ascribe our failures and shortcomings to everything around and about...

the unhappiness within spreads as an epidemic outside...chronic , crippling....we try to battle the situations outside..without candidly exploring ourselves.....

i am not condemning and judging.....but it is painful to watch....

religion has been as much of an escapade....as different from a authenticated , personal self-authenticed process of discovering and living from our centres....

keeping up images....to "fit in".....very rarely being ourselves....afraid of our loneliness, which may have the answers....but we chose not to stay with it..accept it.....

we have to light our own candles from within....and walk in that illumination....groping in the dark can be very miserable....