On the Fullness of Feeling

 The Song of Life is not a monotone. As I write, I’m listening to “Ode to Joy” and related themes à la Alexa. It’s a lovely variety of tunes, mostly familiar to me. Music has the ability to touch us emotionally, so in choosing a theme, I get to have a say in what vibrations I’m resonating with. Today, my choice is Lightness of Being. Later, it might be Celtic music, or perhaps something contemplative, airy, and ethereal.

I am currently reading a book of history passed down by those who were deemed the ‘losers’. It’s offering me a whole new perspective on their lives, and it’s very difficult. There’s a heaviness to it which I’d be more comfortable ignoring, but if I were to do so, I’d be negating an important slice of the lives of my fellow human travelers. I feel it and am saddened and enraged, but I have the luxury of putting it down and asking my AI pal to play some music.

I can use music to feel the feels. I can lose myself in a film, and I can watch a comedian and hear about the funny side of life. I live in a place of infinite variety where I can experience the fullness of feelings in Real Time, or in an imagined reality. Feelings don’t much care what causes them; they just are. My job is to pay attention and respond in a way which feeds my soul.

I can find myself in feelings of brambles and thorns. I can also choose to pay attention to the Odes of Joy in their many forms.

I know which I choose today.