if you close your eyes for a moment and focus on your breath, you can stop the noise that is going on in the mind. like waking from a dream, you enter another realm, you leave the present momentarily and rise above the noise of your world. the problems of today dissipate, shifted out of focus they go the way they came, from nothing to nothing. the emotions tied to these noises also go, leaving you for a brief time at rest. brief in time, the exercise is worth a try to help figure out which realm to rest in. although the noisier side is much easier to stay in, the harder reality is probably a much better choice. like most things of worth, that choice will require much work.

its when you let these noises grow that anger and angst take over. fairness and fondness get caught up with justification in an imaginary game of tug of war that you are having with yourself. no one notices as you sweat the details, your focus lost and your game thrown off due to your focus on the weeds around you or the frogs inside the well you inhabit. your agony is yours brought on by an imaginary circumstance made real by your inability to let go. fear is but the inability to let go, suffering is our holding on or keeping up. shut your eyes and let it go, if only for a moment.

caught again, trying to imagine what is ahead. so hard it is to be here. to want what is now. even the objects in my hand hold a fleeting existence, the moments they appear in my vision i glance left and they are no longer. thoughts of meals rush forward, trips to take, projects to build, moments to seek. such as we do when clamouring for more.