It's funny how we are born into this world so in love with everything. All that we experience is amazing and wondrous. Essentially we are aware; plain and simple.

Then the world begins to tell us that everything that we intuit is wrong. All of our desires are wrong and immoral. Basically everything we understood from birth was an incorrect perception that needed fixing with a healthy dose of shame and self loathing. Now, you see it, my child! You're almost perfect! Don't forget to second guess yourself!

Of course if we are lucky, 20 or 30 years down the road we start to notice that something is deeply wrong and we begin to investigate reality. This is where we start living again, trying to undo the damage and simply get back to that person we were when we were young.

I suppose the journey of life is a round trip from the past to the future and back to the present moment.