For the new year
Long nights and short days. Darkness beckons as death is upon the stead - signalling the end of a year. Should mr. Connors even react? If so, how should he?
There is of course the option of the idiotic laugh, the laughter of a madman reacting to the absurdities of the ever so horrible world - laughter as a substitute to crying.. This is however not the case of our dear hero, Jacobski, who chose to laugh richly and generously.. Simply as a result of how he perceived the world around him. He knew of all the reasons in the world to laugh and and to smile!
Not to be mistaken for callous arrogance, Jacobski was completely enlightened about the cloud of darkness shrouding the world in a veil of suffering and misery, that he no longer felt a need to cognitively log down every event of harm or wrongfulness in order to do them justice.
--- This way, Jacobski established a baseline of the world as fundamentally grim and thus used it as a catalyst for a more vivid and delightful engagement in reality which he would recognize through the gaze of what he called 'cheerful despair.'
Rather than to be taken as a given, every day without pain, every unexpected act of kindness, and every glass of mead was experienced as a bonus and as a reason to love and to laugh.
Jacobski approaches, looks you in the eyes and says to your face:
"A life without festivity is like a long road without an inn."
Jacobski vaporizes into rainbow-light and manifests himself in reality. All happens as a consequence of the free play of space. Everything is held together by love.
There is of course the option of the idiotic laugh, the laughter of a madman reacting to the absurdities of the ever so horrible world - laughter as a substitute to crying.. This is however not the case of our dear hero, Jacobski, who chose to laugh richly and generously.. Simply as a result of how he perceived the world around him. He knew of all the reasons in the world to laugh and and to smile!
Not to be mistaken for callous arrogance, Jacobski was completely enlightened about the cloud of darkness shrouding the world in a veil of suffering and misery, that he no longer felt a need to cognitively log down every event of harm or wrongfulness in order to do them justice.
--- This way, Jacobski established a baseline of the world as fundamentally grim and thus used it as a catalyst for a more vivid and delightful engagement in reality which he would recognize through the gaze of what he called 'cheerful despair.'
Rather than to be taken as a given, every day without pain, every unexpected act of kindness, and every glass of mead was experienced as a bonus and as a reason to love and to laugh.
Jacobski approaches, looks you in the eyes and says to your face:
"A life without festivity is like a long road without an inn."
Jacobski vaporizes into rainbow-light and manifests himself in reality. All happens as a consequence of the free play of space. Everything is held together by love.
Happy new year !
SvarSlet