But a point about what?
Posted on 24 July 2009
But a point about what? Let’s be specific. A point to being alive, I guess. But when I drive down Sunset Blvd, for instance, overwhelmed with posters – naked this, naked that, I get confused. Is the point to get laid, then? Sure. Drive a gleaming car, wear the right jeans and T-shirt. Why not? Or go into one of the glittering clubs just off the curb. Seems like fun. Have Kids somewhere along the line? Absolutely, if you can manage it – some of the best Gap ads have been particularly poignant re that one. But doesn’t that just make us all at best just some kind of link in a chain? Is that the point? Are we all just links in a generally unbroken chain, a kind of nice Buddhist selflessness? Is that enough? And though at this point in my Website’s little life I figure nobody is reading this, maybe nobody ever will — the question still remains, in fact in some ways it becomes a more interesting question – rhetorical. What is the point in being alive even if nobody knows you’re doing it?
Stephen Gyllenhaal
2 responses to But a point about what?
I love your writings…yet at the same time I hate them. They hurt: they remind me of my own loneliness and infinite wonderings and the fact that there are no answers. But the way you express the melancholic daily life, and its small joys, is so beautiful that I am addicted.
The point… seems to me there is a directional flow of energy going on in this world and the moments of dropping into that and truly being in the moment is where I find the connection and point of life, so to speak. Sometimes it happens in meditation, sometimes I feel it in traffic when I let someone in, instead of inching up and blocking them, in the ocean on my surf board bobbing in the water, falling asleep in my husbands arms. And also in the moments of mundane life, making coffee in the morning or simply folding laundry – tapping into the beauty of life’s highs and lows and truly feeling it all. I convince myself on the good days this is the point, to feel as much as I can.