The Same's Experience of Another Smile. Why? Because you can.

// Death//

in our culture is very hush hush. It’s kept out of sight apart from at funerals and hospitals and Lord forbid you talk about death at these places — you have to talk about life. Death isn’t taught to our children, we never discuss the possible death of loved ones. We keep all these emotions caged up inside us and so they become reclusive and quite insane. Why is it we go to a hospital to die? Now I understand that people are usually sick when their about to die and as a healer it is the doctors job to heal them. Is Death a sickness, is birth a sickness? No. Both are perfectly natural parts of life. Now imagine your in hospital and you know you going to die. Your family and the doctors are keeping it all under wraps because of course death is so very tragic. So they come round and talk about how nice it’ll be when your better and all the nice things you get to do. How sweetly cruel. Now imagine that they instead come in and all say “Congratulations. Your going to die. No more of this stressful buisness of living. Phew isn’t living so exausting. You wont have to pack any bags to get out, their is nothing you have to sign, Hell, there’s nothing you need to do anymore.” So you have a party and die at the end. You go to sleep and never wake up — just like when you were born you woke up after never being asleep. There is no sence in being afraid of dieing, you just have to accept it. Give it all up, let go of whatever is keeping on this earth, say whatever you need to say and then just let go. If you’ve let it all go before you die, what is it that death can possibly take from you.

// Depression in the West//

Is perpetuated by the idea of being alone - separate from the rest of existence. This is of course a falsehood.
Firstly, there are no things in this universe. One can say, there is a sun and it is about 1400000 kilometres wide but this measurement is arbitrary - one could measure the sun by how far it heat extends, or how far it’s light reaches, one could also measure the sun by it’s effects: without it there could be no life, so life on Earth is just an extension of the sun but the sun is just an extension of the universe. The energy from the food you eat, the fire you sit next to, the friends you dance with: this energy is not yours (it is in a constant state of transferal) it is the universe’s but you ARE the universe. You are the stars the sun the water the laughter the horrid bit and the nice bits? But we don’t see it like that. We identify ourselves with the ‘I’ behind the body that is somehow separate from the rest of us and the universe. This I however, is just an evolutionary quirk to make sure you don’t trip up, to judge and catigorise. To say that I am the ego is as silly as saying that this ship is it’s radar. No the ego is as much you as your foot is and your foot is as much you as Pluto is.

Joe. 21. Writer. More to it than this.