WAKING UP

December 29, 2021

Waking up. When you were waking up, did it take you a minute to get your bearings? For a nano-second did you not know where you were? You live your life in two existences. One is real. Is the other one real too? When you are dreaming, the dream seems real. Sometimes weird but real. You do not say, you were having a dream until you wake up. When you wake up you might know that you had been dreaming, but unless you write down your memory of the dream it is soon forgotten. Was it real? What is a dream anyway? Waking up, once you have gotten your bearings, is opening your eyes to the familiar. The room you are in is identical to the room you were in when you went to sleep. You are waking up to reality. But wait a minute. What is reality? Isn’t it possible we are living a dream? Isn’t it possible that our waking up is just changing venues? Couldn’t our reality, in reality be a dream? Let me repeat that, ” Couldn’t our reality in reality be a dream?”. Reality is mostly determined by the familiar. Ok I am standing on the top of a mountain, and I decide I can fly. So, I jump, and I die. I cannot fly. Now, If I am standing on a mountain and I jump and start flying then is that reality or is that a dream? Most likely because it seems impossible that I am flying; I will categorize it as a dream. My reality is determined by time and place. For instance, if I were now a ghost. I would be untethered to my body. I would be unable to communicate with humans for the most part, but I could do things that I could never have done before. I could move through walls, and no one could see me because I would be invisible. Again, my reality would be determined by time and place. What is reality? Reality is what you are experiencing as you are experiencing it. Everybody has their own reality and reality changes. In the twenty-first century we are all waking up to a new world of possibilities. Our realities are so much different from those who were dead and buried before us. What is reality? Reality is a time and a place. Reality is today. Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a figment of our imagination until it becomes today. Waking up, we can all wake up to the miracle of now. Every moment is reality. Make love, appreciation and gratitude part of your vocabulary today. Be happy today because today is all you have. Ask yourself is this a dream? You will never know until you are waking up.

Granny-o