"Sleep"

I slept so deeply. More deeply than I had in months, in an eternity. But it was a deep slumber that belied the terror that lay in waiting. The dream was a pseudo-memory filled with falsehood and truth, a fantasy mixed with pleasures and nightmares of a future past or a future to come or a future never to be realized. But no worse a thing was the role I played with no choice: that of omniscient spectator. I think now that gods, all-knowing and omnipresent, are beings to be pitied, for they bear the weight of not only what is and what was, but of what will be—and the variegated colors of chaos of known-unknowns. The sleep and the dream that I endured, helplessly, though deep and uninterrupted (unlike in nigh on all previous instances), was a manifestation of all that I feared but knew to be truth. All that I knew was just waiting to come, one fateful day in the waking world.

M. M.

Examining your beliefs

With some careful consideration one may come to realize that any philosophy—be it political, moral or metaphysical—originates, is accepted or is practiced through the vehicle of the individual. So, it is by the token of any person's desire for autonomy and self-direction that such genesis, assimilation or espousal of particular philosophies must have at its heart a responsibility of ownership held and accounted for by the individual. In other words, one must take it upon oneself to rationalize and fully consider the tenets of one's beliefs and their consequent imperatives. It is not enough to take things for granted; it falls short to just take oneself at one's own word. Rather, I would say it is an obligation to examine, and update where necessary, the nature of what one believes, especially in the case where one actively seeks for others to share the same beliefs. This I would argue is salubrious as, from time to time, a people, composed of individuals, must assess the "health" of their values. The state of the world turns on a dime and it is not rational to believe that one need not turn along or keep up with it.

The Wonder Physical

It is the light that unveils the soul
Dispelling darkness of the unknown

Elevating worlds of the quantum
That whirl in magic and momentum

M. M.