I was still feeling sort of dizzy or something, and I had a helluva headache all of a sudden. 'Oh, I don't know.' I didn't feel much like going into it. “They had this course you had to take, Oral Expression. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports “Oh, jeez,” Fang said, sounding strangled.” Love you sooo much.” I tried to hold out my arms to show how much, but I “Fang, Fang, Fang,” I murmured, overwhelmed with emotion. “I think I would like a La-Z-Boy,” I mused, letting my eyes drift shut “Um, no,” said Ella’s voice, somewhere behind my head.
“Do you have a La-Z-Boy somewhere?” I roused myself to ask, every word an I knew that.” I drifted off for a few minutes, barely aware ofĪnything, but feeling Fang’s hand still in mine. “I don’t want my chip anymore,” I explained groggily, then frowned. Just relax.” He sounded stiff and nervous. Was Ella’s mom going to start this procedure any time soon? Totally.” It seemed very urgent that he understand this.Īgain I felt some tugging on my arm, and I really wondered what that wasĪbout. “No,” I said, suddenly struck by how unfine I would be. “I don’t know what I’d do without you.” I peered up at him, trying to see What’s going on, but then the thought was gone, sliding away like Jell-O off a I felt some pressure on my arm and thought, I should look over and see I smiled at the way the lights were dancing overhead, pink and yellow andīlue. “Oh, look, the lights are so pretty,” I said dreamily, having just noticed Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.”
It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. There’s a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didn’t they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And it’s the same old lesson: everything in this life-I repeat, everything-is more trouble than it’s worth. “There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people.
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