C'est moi

walking contradiction...a work in progress
you don't know the haafu of it - © DY

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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. - Isaac Asimov

who id like to meet: Thick Nhat Hanh; His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama; anyone from another country..anyone with a unique life experience..anyone with something to share with the world...I want to meet as many diverse people as possible, for the sake of expanding my horizons and gaining persepctive and insight into our world.

heros: I don't think I have any heros...I think i have role models..people who inspire me..But i think more of fully becoming the person I am and doing/learning as much as I can in the world. It's of no use to idolize others, i think. "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." And what I seek is wisdom, knowledge, insight, experience, and just the amazing marvel that is this life on this planet.

As Alice Walker said, "We live in the best of all times." SO much is before us. We're at a pivitol turning point in human history. SO MUCH can be done and learned and discovered. Evolution is happening right in front of our eyes, in biological, psychological, and environmental terms..for both humans and this planet. So my "heros" would have to be the people taking full advantage of this amazing age in which we live.
Other people I'd have to admire would be people who have survived exteems in life. People in the Middle East, India, etc. Places in great poverty, where slavery, hunger, disease, prostitution, rape, war, genocide occur daily. Also people in the wealthier countries like in the West. People who have lived through psychological traumas or otherwise. People who have suffered and have something important to share, a story to tell.

People fascinate me. Psychologically, religiously, in every way. I love to study it, to observe it, to listen to them. The human condition is amazing.
People who take charge of their lives inspire me. People who follow their hearts. People who are in touch with themselves, with life. The imperfect people who nonetheless embrace life, run from it, and are just beautful in their own right. I am a humanist. I think the IMperfect human condition is beautiful and somehow perfect. There is a sacred divine about this planet and the life and death on it. And those scientists, archaeologists, scholars, philosophers, and historians are insprirations to me because they recognize just how incredible life in this world is.

Even religions people inspire me. I think religion is a fascinating bi-product of evolution. It's just terrible and agrivating how through history people have turned it into senseless wars and fundamentalist bull-shit for self-righteous people with no other way to solve their own internal conflicts. When i think fo relgions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoim and other pagen, polytheistics..i think of our ancient ancestors and I feel SO proud to be a part of something so sacred and beautiful and SO NATURAL. nature was the original inspiration for religion. I think it's only natural that we would worship gods who looked like animals, who controlled the earth we came in contact with every day.
So, when I see little shrines, meditations, offering to the gods/ancestors, dances and rituals...it makes me feel more human. It makes me feel like I have a connection with my ancestors and with those around me. So religous people inspire me.

It's strange though..i also consider myself an athiest in many ways..