The Compassion Files: Reality

[Tobin S.]

4. Hi, Panther. It's good to see you posting here again.

I think it's possible to be true to what you might call your feline nature and still be in tune with Ultimate reality. The reality I speak of in my OP is not experienced by most people...at least, not very often. Most people are locked in the past and the future. They are never fully aware of the present even though that's where we really all are.

I'm a past tense kind of guy and because of that reason I tend to have a problem with negative emotions. My wife is a future tense kind of person. She tends to suffer from anxiety. When we can both let go of that stuff and be here in the present moment together it is like bliss.

I can relate to the way you are feeling with all the hoops it seems like we have to jump through in ordinary reality. I was telling a friend the other day that it feels like I'm living with a cage around my mind. I don't feel truly free to be who I am a lot of the time and to do the things I really want to do. What I've come to realize is that most people feel like that. Most people in America do not feel free to be who they truly are. So we have all of our problems with drugs and food and violence. Most people are self-medicating in some way to try to make them feel better due to the lack of authenticity in their lives.

You are not alone, Panther. You are just more in tune with the true nature of so-called reality here in America. More people would see it your way if they were honest with themselves.