Well Meaning

Well meaning;

we fill the world with stories, well meaning for many, and most never questioned - but done are ever fully true. They're all just maps of how we see the landscape of our lives, navigational aids for our travels through time.

fiction. 

every religion is a well meaning story, philosophies too, even science although less invested in belief of being ultimately true. We've inherited all of this and others adopted on our own, books, media, and a willingness to believe the word of others. 

but none are true.

not really so. 

do I have a truth to share? 

or just another story?

mostly, I'm a story teller, interested in a clever phrase and turn of words - I write what the moment holds for me right now, a truth perceived but not held as always being so. What I share are stories that I'm willing to dismiss, my only real art is one of letting go. I don't believe my own stories, even the ones that have long filled my world.   

but stories do have meaning, they serve to endear us to others and their ideas of the world. Fiction is a useful tool, until it isn't. And that's more accurate in how we navigate life, borrowing the landscape of others, traveling well churned paths of those who came before. Here's what's true (except it isn't, really) - right now, this moment as experienced by breath, that we're aware of any sound, perhaps a touch of breeze against us. Just this, whatever it is that appears, and right before we give it story. What's true is how this moment changes so easily, seamlessly, to another, as if only one event that's endless in its flow. Truth is my story, and it's the emptiness that holds it as a page, silence allowing for it to be told. My body is true, mind, my solid sense of touch, none of this dismissed as being unreal in the purpose that it serves. Yet I know the story of my body, regressed to cells, molecules, atoms, until the reach of particles swirling through my absence. 

what's true in any of this? 

everything.

and absolutely nothing at all. 

it's just another story told. 

~

Peace, Eric