Diploma, Money, Marriage, Bible

People don’t want to learn, they want paper that tells them they have learned.
People don’t want to live a life of value, they want paper that tells them they have value.
People don’t want to be in love, they want paper that tells them they are in love.
People don’t want to experience God, they want paper to tell them what God is.

I take it back.  It’s not that people don’t want these things.  Of course, who doesn’t want knowledge, money, love, and (for some) spirituality.  It’s that people tend to get caught up in the illusion of those things.  That somewhere along the line, they lose their way.

And it’s so easy to make that mistake.  It’s so easy to equate knowledge with a diploma, money with value, love with marriage, and God with the Bible.

Or maybe that’s just me projecting myself onto others.  Maybe there’s nothing wrong with living a life of paper.  Who am I to judge?

/ramblings

Sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

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