High Way - Daily Thoughts by Mon Rasz
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Everyday billions of people create trillions of thoughts.
Understandably, most of the toughts are circling around the performance of daily actions. But we also like to stay busy. - Having a busy day is cool. - Makes us feel important, like an actor, politician or doctor. Being busy, yeah, no time to waste and think about more than just what is right in front of us. And once we have done that: - our daily work, - have put checkmarks on everything that needed our attention, we are – meditating – oh, I’m sorry – we are rather looking for distractions, I should say. TV, iPod, Internet, WoW, car collection, club activities, shopping, and the other items on our ever growing To-Do and Have-To-Have list, all are of great help to keep us busy, not to be alone with one’s self. But maybe we need just that, being tired at the end of the day from all what we have accomplished, then go to sleep and wake up in the morning hoping that everything’s gonna be better or even better. Somehow!
10 billion people going in one direction without further thought. That’s a lot of crowd. If you are neither in front or at the the very end, you don’t even notice what the direction is. It’s just out of sight. So you do, what all the others do – follow the one in front of you.
Sometimes this heavy crowd crosses intersections with tiny signs for little roads that lead into other directions, but nobody knows where there are really heading to and they would be way too small for everybody to walk on, since they have not been constructed for heavy load. So, with the exception of a few curious, the march goes on, almost military style straight forward.
At the horizon, although far away, we can already see the big letters of welcoming cities. Let’s see if I can read their names: If my eyes are still serving me well I can make out: Money, Power, Status, Fame, and Control - these are the biggest ones out there. So let’s check them out and see what they have to offer, - once we are there. Let’s keep on going, faster, faster. After a long while of heavy walking, during which all our thoughts were tied up in that very action, I let myself fall behind a little bit, if that is even possible within such a large mass of people, and look up again at the horizon. It occours to me that something had changed with the signs. At first I thought we were coming closer to our destination, but on second thought I figured that the signs didn’t come closer one bit, they just became bigger, giving us the impression we were closer.
The others don’t seem overly concerned about that, I think most don’t even notice, they are just over-confident about reaching the cities soon. So everybody keeps on walking.
Occasionally, big ballons that show advertisements of companies like, American I, Power B, and URF, hover over the crowd, dropping down little snacks and trinks, but only very few can grab them. At very rare occasion, one of the balloon lets a latter down and one or two out of the billions are picked up. These must be the very lucky ones, because they won a trip to the cities. They don’t need to walk any more. But the others and myself keep on walking. I start asking around how long everybody is already on this trip. But I don’t get clear answers. It seems to me some have been walking forever and haven’t reached the cities yet.
The further we go the better and bigger the highway gets. More people are joining in. It’s getting ridiculous to some point, but traffic officers are standing by everywhere, having everything under control, making sure the flow of the crowd doesn’t get interrupted, by anything. It’s real flowing smoothly. Too smoothly I would say. But I kinda enjoy now being there, with the crowd. Everybody is on the same wavelength, going in the same direction to reach the goal. I’m so occupied with my daily action of walking, I’m starting to forget what the names of the cities were we are heading to. That doesn’t matter any more, because as soon as I lift up my head I can read the signs again, they are so huge now – but still far away.
If I were not so busy walking, I would look out for a rest place to take a break, but then again I would lose my spot within the crowd. I just made new friends and I don’t want to lose them again. So I keep walking.
After a while, I ask myself when the last time was I saw one of these intersections with roads going in other directions. But I can’t remember, it must have been a while ago. Now there are no more intersections possible, because there are walls coming up on the side of that huge hiway and they are getting higher and higher. If I’d be alone, I would become afraid a little bit, the walls are so hi now, but everybody keeps on walking, so why worry?
In not so far a distance I see a tunnel. The hiway with its huge walls is leading right into it. Everybody thinks it’s the entrance gate to the big cities. I’m not so sure about that because when I lift my head the big signs are really huge and still very far, but they somehow changed position from far away to far above. I don’t understand. I’m more concerned than before. The signs seem to be hanging right above our heads, high above in the sky and still I can see no cities.
I’m probably overly concerned, maybe at the end of the tunnel I’ll see them. They must be there, somewhere. Everybody is getting excited, the end of our journey seems near. The crowd is starting to cheer, we are at the entrance of the tunnel, there is no turning back now, we almost made it. Just one more final effort and we are at the place we ever wanted to be.
The tunnel looks fine. Ok, it seems to be a one way road, but the cities have provided for light and sound in the tunnels, so no worries here. Pleasant sound is played, once in a while interrupted by advertisments - we all know that means nothing. It’s just advertisement. - Sometimes, however, I ask myself how the manage to always pick the right sounds and words for their ads. But who knows…Maybe by accident.
So the huge snake like mass of billions of people slowly but steady enters deeper and deeper into the tunnel. It’s a great spectacle. I’d never imagined a tunnel that big could be built, but apparently they made it. The anticipation of the expected welcoming event is overwhelming. The crowd is walking and dancing at the same time. It’s out of this world - I can’t help myself and have to dance to the music, too - this beat is unreal.
But, wait a sec – what just happened? Nah, that was nothing just a little tremble, coming from a few millions marching and dancing uniform. Hope they don’t do that again. But, the music is getting even louder, the crowd’s dancing heavily now. Everybody follows the beat, oh no it’s getting uniform again, the shaking of the ground increases. It’s like a small earthshake.
I’m afraid now, I start screaming – as loud as possible – but one voice in billions, that’s nothing. I see a few others screaming too, and I try to talk to them, but the communication is bad, the music and beat is just too loud. I try it with hand signals, but I’m awful at that, I wish I had learned in time another way to communicate. But even if, would the others understand me? But that’s too late now anyways. We try to run back to the entrance of the tunnel – but there is no way to run against that kinda stream.
We get pushed back big time, it’s just too many. We somehow manage to convince a few more to stop that uniform dancing and have them spread the word, too. We are already a few hundred now, soon a few thousand, shouting to stop the music. But still we merely can be heard. The crowd is dancing like crazy and the volume is increased again. The tunnel won’t hold for long. Im sure, it will burst pretty soon. I observe the tunnel walls, but see no signs of cracking or weakness, I must admit the architects have done an amazing job. How can I colossal structure like that support this kind of impact? Along with the beat of the music, the uniform dancing is stepped up another time. I don’t know what’s gonna happen – something has to give – how can this continue? I’m trying to gather my thoughts, but this is very difficult in this place. I can’t concentrate it’s just too much of noise and distraction.
It seems to me, the only way to stop this crazyness is to cut off the power. But who has control over that? I get the impression nobody is really in charge of anything here. So what should we do now? This is today’s big question mark.
I thank you for your time.
May the higher spirit help us evolve.
Until the next Daily Thoughts
Yours truly,
Mon Rasz
And today’s Post Lectum is:
One drop of rain - along with others
Grows a stream - and then another
To become a river - along with more
Can fill up an ocean - up to the shore.
Pure and persistent - weak as a source
Once united – what a powerful force.