We all are searching, more or less desperately, for some reason to be here, for some compelling, driving force pulling us into and driving us through our life. Our life is--and has to be-- a vehicle of LIFE! An experience of LIFE! A path to LIFE! Our life has to bring us to LIFE! When and where is that, has been, the case in our life? Where has life brought us to LIFE? How often have we been ALIVE in our life? How far away from being ALIVE here and now, at this point in our life? On a floating scale from dead-or-mostly-dead to ALIVE-fully-completely-absolutely-totally- wholly-ALIVE, where are we right now? How long has it been since we were ALIVE? What's going on? Why the separation from LIFE? What is keeping us from, making it difficult for us to be, ALIVE right here, right now? Most of what we do for LIFE is a substitute for LIFE. Is a diversion/distraction/substitute, and we are in denial regarding how ALIVE we are throughout our day, every day. Why? What are we doing to keep from being ALIVE? Why? The culture is a diversion/distraction itself. A substitute for life. Filled with entertaining pastimes. Drugs. Sex. Alcohol. Money. Vacations. Movies... What is anyone doing to bring themselves to LIFE? What are they doing to compensate themselves for having no LIFE at all? To take their mind of having no LIFE at all? What are we doing? What are we going to do about that?
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 