the little buddha inside
So, I was talking to a friend this afternoon, and I was telling her how life, at times, going between the "real" world and the blog-world, sometimes leaves me feeling a bit disoriented. In one world there are folks who know who I am, enjoy my words, respect my thought and my skills in this medium. In another world, there are people who don't know anything about me, and if I can't sum myself up in 3 minutes or less by naming my direct and concrete profession, feel the right to say things like "so, what do you *really* do for a living?" and "what do *you* know about anything?"
I said that the blogosphere was like a subculture--it's got its own rules and mores and ways of doing things. I said that sometimes it felt like I'm speaking two languages, cycling between two (or more) different worlds.
"We're from the future!" another blogger friend and I agreed in a phone conversation the other night. We'd both been feeling a bit of frustration with folks in the "real" world--how they just don't seem to understand us, and that it's hard to deal with sometimes. I reminded her that we know a lot of A-listers--and we agreed tha we're not A-listers really. We're like that indy rock band that's been around for a long time and knows the Rolling Stones enough to party with them--but really aren't in that level of stratosphere.
Actually, we're just two really smart broads, unaffiliated with an education institution or a newspaper or a p/r firm or a tech company or a bunch of v.c's, who do what we do because, like little kids, someone gave us a weird toy, asked us what we thought of it, and we figured we'd just play with it until we got bored.
We haven't got bored yet. We're still learning what it is....
My other friend asked me this afternoon how I've been able to go through all kinds of subcultures all througout my life, and never lose my Self. I told her that, inside my heart, there's this little Buddha
very serene, who always reminds me that it's all just zen. Life is all just zen.
And the world falls away....everything matters and nothing matters.
It is what it is, in this moment, and that is all.
That is how you learn to move between the worlds.
I said that the blogosphere was like a subculture--it's got its own rules and mores and ways of doing things. I said that sometimes it felt like I'm speaking two languages, cycling between two (or more) different worlds.
"We're from the future!" another blogger friend and I agreed in a phone conversation the other night. We'd both been feeling a bit of frustration with folks in the "real" world--how they just don't seem to understand us, and that it's hard to deal with sometimes. I reminded her that we know a lot of A-listers--and we agreed tha we're not A-listers really. We're like that indy rock band that's been around for a long time and knows the Rolling Stones enough to party with them--but really aren't in that level of stratosphere.
Actually, we're just two really smart broads, unaffiliated with an education institution or a newspaper or a p/r firm or a tech company or a bunch of v.c's, who do what we do because, like little kids, someone gave us a weird toy, asked us what we thought of it, and we figured we'd just play with it until we got bored.
We haven't got bored yet. We're still learning what it is....
My other friend asked me this afternoon how I've been able to go through all kinds of subcultures all througout my life, and never lose my Self. I told her that, inside my heart, there's this little Buddha
very serene, who always reminds me that it's all just zen. Life is all just zen. And the world falls away....everything matters and nothing matters.
It is what it is, in this moment, and that is all.
That is how you learn to move between the worlds.
image courtesy of Siamese Dream
posted by Tish Grier at 10:52 PM
2 Comments:
Dear Tish: thanks for the oh-so-important reminder of my own "little buddha inside." I love this thought- so comforting for those of us who are constantly changing, and constantly changing our surroundings.
Hi Shamash....good to see you stopping by! I've missed your blogging and your own thoughts. even though we're half a world away, we seem to share so much. :-)
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