gracias por salvar al mundo

By David Geiger, November 9, 2019

I first posted to this blog over a year ago, on November 2, 2018. Since then I have been on a verbal and pictorial journey trying to ask and sometimes answer questions like “what am I doing” and “why am I writing about these things” and “what is the point of all this?”

I hope and believe that most people can relate to that kind of quest. I can’t determine if anyone reading this really relates, but I think if I write it here, then one day many years from now, some one person might relate to it and change the whole world. I would say “hey, leave a response here when something I write touches your reality, it could save the planet!”

But the chances of my changing the world, for better or worse, are incredibly small. It is as remote a chance as sending, in the last days of earth, a container of earth-life on a rocket ship to another planet far away hoping that decades or centuries, or more likely millennia in the future, life comes up from the filthy chemical-bacterial mix on some far away planet. We would never know the outcome, but we would have to try, we would have to try! Probably everyone on earth would agree, we must try!

So, even though it is highly unlikely I would make a contribution that would change the world magically for the better, I must try. I must pack all this written stuff up in a rocket ship and then assume that the blogs of the world are on a little usb disk (and maybe put a disk reader thing onboard just in case) on that last ship leaving earth. Or, it could be my contributions help us from ever getting to the end of the earth. I must try.

I don’t usually think about these things in such detail, so most days I tell myself, just keep going, it will take shape eventually. The usual situation in my head is disorganized and scattered, and sometimes my feelings actually have control of the whole ship. It is the irrational, emotional, and passionate that make us human.

If I were to successfully rationalize everything, if I could use my brain to make everything understandable, predictable, repetitive, logical, answerable, reachable, rational, then that is truly the end of life. Nothing can get past this barrier. So, as I see it, to stay alive I must open my mind and keep it open to let these things into my head!

It’s not that I want everything crazy – that would be horrible. But I need to, sometimes carefully and sometimes recklessly, balance the crazy I let in with the huge rational block of stone weighting things down on the other side.

In this year of blogging I have experimented with words in different ways and on different topics with no shortage of things to write about. It entertains me and that is a good thing.

I don’t think of it as “making my mark on the world,” but at least it is all mine, it is my feelings, my thoughts, my limitations, my challenges, my biases, my love, and sometimes my rational thought.

So I will keep going for a little while more. I really do want to thank you in advance for saving the world. Gracias por salvar al mundo. And thank you for reading my words.

David

 © David Geiger 2019