the agony and the ectasy

regeneration is the process of life and in the scope of current human knowledge it can only go on so long before the physical cells lose their ability to regenerate, but is that just the current delusion we accept and create as physical reality just as the world was once flat, the universe revolved around the earth, and god created it all?... so humanly egocentric, so inwardly focused in some misguided attempt to please everyone outside of ourselves... a discord, a dichotomous oxymoron, a hyperbolic mutual exclusion... or something like that...

it is said that pain inspires art, that the greatest art comes of the greatest challenges, the most torturous pain, the most unbelievable misery... it is also said that misery loves company, but i see the lie in that human phrase as true misery scares people away, repels people, and even turns people into angry mobs... it is superficial self-pathetic misery that appears to enjoy company, but only for the sympathy it might provide... mutual pity parties is not loving company...

but if you allow the depths to swallow you and accept that life ends in death which can happen any time and therein accept death without fear, you can understand and even experience, if you are lucky, that from the agony of the deepest pain, from the frantic madness of the greatest challenge can come the ecstasy of surviving and even, if you are not just lucky but also wise and creative, experience the ecstasy of turning lemons into lemonade, of somehow create an aesthetically pleasing (or at least some value) resolution or result to express the experience and leave behind as you move on...

is any of this (or that, for that matter) getting through to anyone?...

surprise me :)