What's Going On?

Every second of every day, so much is going on. Cars are going on, people are going on, every variety of emotion is going on. Birds are zooming around, people are being born, dying, crying, making love and laughing. Sea life is going on, computers are doing whatever it is that they do. A deafening silence is going on on the moon, winds are blowing across the vast desolation of Saturn. Galaxies are going on. The incomprehensible immensity of our ever expanding universe is going on. Even this little office I'm sitting in is going on. One could spend a lifetime contemplating how improbable and unknowable this office alone is.

It's odd isn't it- that there's stuff? Isn't this odd?

Sometimes I just want to go “Yo! Everybody! Hold up! Hold up a second! What in the world is going on? What are we doing and why are we doing it?” An even better question- "How is this?" How is all of this happening? Why am I writing this? Why do you understand it? When we talk with each other, we look into each others eyes and this seems routine. But why do we perceive each other at all? It’s all so peculiar.

Isn’t it bizarre that something so outrageously, unfathomably and infinitely complex as all of this is occurring? The craziest part though is how it's all so patently obvious that we hardly even notice it. Why aren’t we completely stupefied all the time? How can we worry about waiting in line at the post office when things as improbable and completely unknowable as “post offices” and “standing in line” seem to exist?

It's interesting to stop sometimes and just see what This is like. Not to 'think' about what This is like (though trying to 'not think' is more of the same.) What if we just drop the chatter ("Will I get what I want? Will I like what I get?" etc) while also dropping all attempts to 'feel' what This is like (though of course still allowing any feelings that do arise.) What if we just stop for a second and wonder what This is like.

Yes- that's it. Stopping at the wonder. How cool.