Pretending

The path to attain awareness, total acceptance of the principles that are inside of you but that, at the moment, you prefer to ignore, is seen as something too far to reach, something that only a few lucky ones obtain. Right now you prefer to relegate such road in a map that you don't wish to check out because its directions and indications do not seem appealing enough to you. “I'll think about it later, when I have more time”, you say. But you will never find the time, you will always have something more urgent, interesting, amusing to do. "I am OK", you tell yourself when you pretend not to see your life slipping away, running on a track that, in spite of the temporary fulfillment, seems to lead you toward always increasing desires and more material goals. You walk with a blindfold on, unconsciously following the smell of mundane success, as a lost sheep might have followed the aroma of a more appetizingly scented grass.