The essence of being human: to be and be happy. Right now.

The essential nature of humans is to be. 

Just be. 

Existing in harmony with all our surroundings. Be it people, animals,  plants, a mountain, or a river. Everything. It is that simple to be fully content and satisfied with the life you're living. Enjoy and savour to the fullest every single moment. Where you are. How you feel. How it feels to be where you are. The past, it's not real, it's not current, it's imaginary, just signals being transmitted in your brain. It's not concrete. Nothing can be achieved by reliving the past, worrying about, thinking about what could have been, how you could have done better. It's not worth it, all it can bring you is unhappiness. Why opt for unhappiness and disatisfaction when you can opt for happiness? Yes there are also the happy memories, but then, you've already enjoyed those moments, and reliving them takes you out of the bauty of this moment which you can only experience right now! Regrets bring sadness, and without all of those regrets you would not be the person you here today, and you are meant to be this person. Everything in the world, this life, everything, is exactly how its supposed to be. Our life is a never ending learning curve. 

If you choose to learn. 

Every single experience has something to teach you. It is the worst moments that are the ones we have the most to learn from, so look at them. Focus on what brings you fear, anger, the characteristics you dislike about people; these are what can teach you the most, what you have the most to learn from. When we don't learn from our mistakes, we repeat them over and over again. The same mistake over and over, and you ask yourself why? Why always to you?? You haven't learned. At the core of these errors is always a spiritual message. A lesson. 

Learn. 

There is so much to learn. 

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Back to being.

I am.

The essence of life.

The past is done, so forget about it. As for the future, it is unknown to us, uncertain. We have absolutely no control over it; and that's ok! Some find this scary. Powerless to THE future. Others refuse to accept this, and try and try to control it. It is extremely stressful and tiresome. Most of all, unecessary. We don't need to control the future. All we have to do is accept it, because if we let it play out, everything WILL be exactly how it is supposed to be. And as a bonus, by not worrying, you get to live in the moment and enjoy yourself. Enjoy here and now, don't waste your time, and your happiness worrying about what might or might not be. You will never know until you're living it so chill out a minute and relax. Plus by the time whatever you were worrying about actually happens you'll probably be too busy worrying about sthe next thing to care anymore.

It's funny. The way we've brought ourselves to live.

So many people walk around in a daze, zoned out by the amount of different things going on everwhere. On autopilot. Tv, computers, videogames, staring at these screens just feeding you information, zoned out, totally unaware of what's going on in the surroundings. Notice how people often don't hear you when they're using these electronics. Very little thinking for ourselves. The same brief polite conversations with the shopkeeper. Or no communication at all with the lady at the cash desk. The brain needs exercize. SOCIAL NETWORKING. What happened to real life socialization? Phones. Sms. Constantly on these gadgets. You see it everywhere. People together all constantly looking down at screens, going out of the moment. Leaving the happingess, trying unsuccessfully to be somewhere else. Which they're not. 

It makes no sense. 

Trying to be these super beings. We want it all. To be everywhere, to do everything, to know everyone, to know everything, to have everything,just give us more more MORE!!! And for what purpose?! There will always be more to want, to know, to do, see, to have, we will never have it all.

We want to be gods. For what purpose?

Happiness?

This is not happiness. Having it all, knowing it all, that doesn't bring happiness. There still is that tight empty feeling in the pit of your stomach, the one shouting at you that's somethings missing. Or maybe it's just a whisper telling you that something isn't right. Listen to that voice. Feel it. That's the essence of your being. Juts feel it. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breath and see what it actually feels like. There you go. You're being. Once you pay attention to that emptiness, feel it, it doesn't feel so bad. It's like a shout. Calling out to you, shouting, screaming. You want to be. 

What is missing is happiness. All it takes to be happy is to live in the moment, and not worry, becase nothing really does matter other than being happy. Nothing. Just be, and be happy. You and only you can provide yourself with this. It is so simple, yet we forget it. Sometimes we think it's the right thing to put others happiness first, it isn't. If you are unhappy you send out those vibrations, and project that unhappiness on those around you, those you care for, those you love. And attract those vibrations. Energy. It's like if you put two guitar strings on two walls opposite each other. Pull a guitar string on one, and the same vibration will ring back from the other. Just like that when you're vibrating happiness and love, this will be projected on you're surroundings and the people within those surroundings. Your happiness will bring happiness to those around you. It's hard to be unhappy around a happy person. 

So simple.

Here and Now

Pienso que..

I am of the opinion that, sometimes, setting ourselves  goals isn't always the best way to approach life; and we do it is vital not to forget to enjoy the journey. This happens far too often.
The aim of accomplishing and achieving overshadows the beauty of each individual moment of the journey. The entire experience is just a blur.
Focusing only on the objective can cause us to forget how wonderful this moment we're experiencing right now is.
 We want to be there, at the finish line, here just isn't good enough.

Here is always good enough.

Now is always good enough.

Without every single other here and now, we wouldn't be who we are here, right now.

Peace & Love

 

and happiness

Point of reflection

The only one true real concrete thing we have is this moment here. Right now. 

Everything else 

is just thoughts, memories

and dreams. 

And even then 

none of it's certain. 

Obsession

 Clearly I'm obsessed. 

 But they're everywhere. 

Inevitably.

Reflections of the concrete world.

A parallel life.

Maybe just in a puddle. 

Or a drop of dew. 

A glass of water. 

Or even a glass of wine. 

 Lakes, rivers, and waterfalls.

Windows, broken glass, and mirrors. 

The sea. 

And the sand.

 And sometimes even in people.

Their clothes.

Or maybe their jewellry.

Or that which they carry.

Light is reflected everywhere. 

In everything.

Even the blades of grass reflect, ever so slightly, the colour of the sky. 

You see it everywhere. Whatever color the sky is. It gives that tint of color to everything beneath it.

Look around you, maybe some evening, when the sun is setting, and the sky's intense. It may be orange, maybe purple. Or maybe that clear blue on a sunny day. 

Notice 

how at different times your surroundings are colored slightly differently. 

It's gorgeous. 

Especially at the beach. 

The sea and the sand. And then the sky. All one.

Another world

Reflections. 

I find them so beautiful. 

And much too often left unnoticed.

So many different beautiful characteristics.

 Sometimes due to their pure utter confusion.

 

And other times it's their sheer clarity that catches you and blows you away.

The mystery, the illusion, the moment. The wholes scene and it as part of it.

If you're a hippy and you know it clap your hands

"All of life is an experiment, and I intend to experiment with it far beyond the status quo"

So before we enter this insanity of intricate pathways, tunnels, rivers, and mountains throughout my mind, I believe it is only appropriate that  we discuss  the term "hippy".

We've already established we all have our own beliefs, so what are the hippy beliefs??

I'd say what first comes to mind to most people when I say hippy is the 1960's flower child. Flower power. Peace, love, and happiness. Now that's what makes the world go round, not these numbers they call money. Look where that go us, all these intricate systems of interactions where we don't know half the people involved in the process. It's madness. I long for the days where goods and services were traded for other gooda and services. One on one human interaction. No multinational companies. No banks. A simple life. Back to basics.

Peace. Love. Happiness. The basic foundation for all hippy beliefs, or definitely mine anyway. Of course there is no one definitive definition of what or who a hippy is, there's such a variety of us. All different yet the same. That's the beauty of it. Each individual. Truly unique.

My first encounter with the true old school hippies from the 60s was last summer, at a hippy reunion on the Greek Island of Crete. Right on the sea there's a wall of caves, which back in the 60s were fully inhabited by the hippies. Of course today that would be illegal. A beach covered in true souls. True spirits. True hippies. So much love. So much peace. So much happiness. Pure self expression everywhere you looked. Art. Dancing. Music. Games. Fire. Laughter. Smiles. Joy everywhere. Yet none of these words are used in todays conventional definition of hippy.

Here's what I found when I googled hippy:

 "a person whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc. implies a rejection of conventional values" (www.urbandictionary.com)

This. Seriously. Bothers me. The association of hippies with drugs. The association of hippies with rebellion. The association of hippies with disregard.

Being a hippy is not about disregard to the law, it's about the peace, the love, and the happiness that surrounds us during every second of every moment we life. Being inspired by these, and thus inspiring others with them. It's about free love. Universal love. Being who you are and doing "your thing" as long as it doesn't come at the cost of hurting others. It's about being who you want to be, living how you want to live,  and sharing all of it.

I would like to make it clear that the above definition is HORRENDOUS. Here follow the true hippy symptoms, as percieved by the old 1960's hippies themselves.


True hippy symptoms:
-The ability to enjoy each and every moment to it's fullest
-a loss of interest in judging other
-a loss of interest in judging ones self
-a loss of interest in conflict
-being at peace with the world
-an infinite love for all living beings (be it human, animal, plant, or other), and an overpowering need to express this
-a tendency to let things happen rather than control that which we have no control over
- no worries
-smiles
-spontaneity
-a need to share the peace, love, and happiness that overwhelms one
-free spirits
-open minded
-being in touch with life, beyond the material world
-a love for the beauty of nature
-an acceptance of all. All living creatures, their beliefs, and their lifestyles.
-self expression through creativity. art in all its forms.

Now these are only a few of the symptoms, and maybe all won't always apply to one person, but you get the idea.

We're not about making a statement and fighting what's conventional. What we're about is sharing, caring, and loving. Living and letting live. Enjoying the beauty of this perfectionately imperfectionate mindblowing awe inspiring planet we live on, and living as one with it. All in the great circle of life.

I'm going to end with a Timothy Leary quote. He started the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out" which seems to be very appropriate in describing the hippy lifestyle. So here it is, his definition of "turn on, tune in, drop out" in his autobiography in 1983, flashback:

 “Turn on’ meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them... ‘Tune in’ meant interact harmoniously with the world around you – externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. ‘Drop Out’ meant self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change.





Forgive me for using this term"hippy". We're no type of people of our own. Just people of the world, like everyone else. 


Peace and love.