I'm listening to: The Platters - Put Your Head On My Shoulder

Can you imagine that right now, at this very instant, there are billions of other people who are living and breathing, just as you are? So many other personal realities run parallel to yours, forming the complex fabric that is our world and by sheer chance alone, we occupy the place we do. When these realities collide in a good way, as they sometimes do, there is a sublimely beautiful chemical reaction from the mutual alignment and unification of purpose and being.

If we live in awareness of the plurality of existence, I think life could acquire a much fuller and more complex flavour. It would be easier to tune in to the patterns and rhythms that govern the universe and harmonise ourselves with them. Obviously, this flies in the face of self-centredness, which marks just one aspect of our human frailty.

Therefore, what we ought to do is attempt, at the very least, to transcend the dominant but restraining concept of the Self to achieve dissociation and a dislocated perspective of the world around us. This can minimize or blur the discreteness of our individual strands of reality, bringing us a step closer to an immaculately consistent and smooth universal fabric which I perceive to be ideal.