When you are feeling a little bit tricky.

When you look to your left and you look to your right, what do you see? Probably nothing nothing, if there is nothing around you. But can you imagine that you are in a movie theatre, with 3D glasses on? Not that this has anything to do with what I am writing about. There are many things in life worth fighting for, one of those things is the pursuit of happiness (with complications). I am in my room right now with the radio on and a great desire to say things that really have no consequential or eternal value, but isn't that where we find ourselves sometimes? Feeling that there are things that need to be said but no one to listen to the things that really bother us? I would like to ask you a question, who owns you? It is not a trick question. What do you spend most of your time thinking about? I'll tell you one thing, there is a giant question in my mind right now, and it has nothing to do with self awareness or anything like that, it has to do with personal responsibility.

Let me explain. I have this friend, let's call him earl. Earl (a fictional person for now) always want to do things to please others but nobody really appreciates the good things he does for other people. Earl likes to think of himself as a good person, he goes to church on Sundays, he gives to the needy, he even goes out of his way to write long letters when he is feeling inspired to hopefully inspire others to be the best persons that they can possibly be. But my friend has sort of run out of energy, not to be the good person that he is, in fact he can't understand why everybody is talking about him recently. As a matter of fact there is no earl, I made him up. Earl is that thing inside each and everyone of us who want to be recognised, earl is you when you feel like nobody hears you. You are Earl when you try your best to please other people and get nothing back in return. Earl sometimes believes that he can live his life without being accountable, not to you or me, but to God. Are you getting this? Words can be meaningless when our lives have no meaning. But what gives your life meaning? Surely not anything I can think of off the top of my head, maybe the reason why we live our lives like Earl is because we have such a hard time realising that this world has nothing in it that can give us a sense of fulfilment?

We pass our time with useless things all the time, but when it comes down to the meaning of life we have no idea what it is? I'll give you a hint...L-OVE.

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