After crunching the brown leaves along the path my tears had vanished. The earth seemed to absorb my sadness. I felt a reconnect in entering nature. I sat on the flat rock overlooking the creek to one side and a pond we are trying to build on the other side. There were just the sounds of nature.
As I listened to these natural sounds I thought about how absurd life had become…. how we’ve stepped into the sci-fi movies, like Logan’s Run, made a few decades ago.
I heard a commercial encouraging one to see their doctor for possible knee replacement surgery, as if this were something that should be commonplace. And then there are all the ads for prescription drugs. They are always saying ask YOUR doctor if this is right for you. Neither my husband nor I even have a doctor. Nor are we on any prescription drugs. I thought should we tell people this? In this sci-fi movie that we are now living could we possibly be arrested for this?
While in an airport recently there was an announcement saying they were at yellow alert. I think very few people even heard it.
On a news cast we heard something about Iowa saying pumpkins would be called decorations instead of food and could be taxed. However, you could fill out a form and get the tax back. I have no idea what the state tax is in Iowa; but in Kentucky it’s six percent. Would that be worth the stamp for mailing the form? Is the collection of the tax worth the added paperwork of producing forms? Couldn’t they just ask you at the check out counter whether you were purchasing it as decoration or food? You know, the honor system, like how airports ask you if anyone other than you has touched your luggage; or how they ask you in the post office if you are mailing anything harmful.
There were just too many absurdities to reflect upon. I let the naturalness around me drown them out. I got up from the rock and walked on. Suddenly I heard an awful ruckus. A deer had settled in the creek. She was just lying there. Venturing closer you could see a gunshot wound. I don’t know how long she had been wounded. We have “No Hunting” signs posted. They seem to instinctively know where to go. I thought of the deer that Yoganada wrote about in “Autobiography of a Yogi.” I hope the deer makes it, but maybe it’s her time, even though her life may end at the hand of a hunter.
Please feel free to comment upon your own absurdities in life.
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Comments: 27
Yes, too many absurdities. I just live my way as best I can.
The best thing is to allow the beauties of life to give you solace for dealing with the other parts, as you did. It is sad to see anything suffering, but there is pain in life. A good hunter makes a clean kill and does not take a shot that may leave the animal wounded.
Christians in the Hand of an Angry God (part 1)
I saw a man interviewed on 60 Minutes tonight who had to have the biggest sailing yacht in the world. Why? Just because. In other words--ego. That is absurd. This man spent probably 150 million or more on this yacht (one of two that he has) and think of all the good that could be done with that kind of money.
But I do want to Thank you for sharing this slice of real life with me today.
There are only 2 things certain in the world...Life and death.
Some hunters came down from Chicago a few years ago & shot a neighbors cow because he thought it was a bear in the bushes. How ignorant is that?
About the deer, though, you did the right thing. A panicked deer could hurt a person badly. I've heard of a driver who accidentally hit one, being killed by the deer's flailing hooves when it went through his windshield.
I was a hunter, from the first time my dad took me Rabbit hunting in 1963. It was an important way to add to the food supply for the family.
About twenty years ago I shot a deer and it ran. I followed a trail of blood for hours trying to find the deer but never found it. Thinking of the deer dieing a slow painful death changed me and I have not hunted since.
Then this summer as I was sitting here near the window on Gather, I saw a doe and it's fawn come by and the doe had a slight limp to it's walk. The next day I recognized it by it's limp again (we have countless dear near here) and got out my binoculars to check it out. Sure enough it was the very same dear and had recuperated. There was still a chunk missing, but hide and hair had grown over and it was otherwise healthy.
A few years ago I had a young deer jump out of the woods into the front of my truck. I had not been going real fast so it only left some hair on the truck but knocked the deer into the ditch basically upside down where it lay motionless. I stopped and repositioned it in the ditch so it's head was up, caressed it a bit and left. It did not show any life as I recall, but about an hour later, or less, I returned home by that spot and it was gone, I assume it recovered also. Animals are quite resilient that way. But they surely do live a tough enough life without having us humans attempting to kill them also.
But back to your articles meaning ... I see the world condition as being a relative hell where there is a materialistic leadership hierarchy determined to turn all subjects, animal and mankind, into just something useful for their enjoyment ... at the rate we are going we will have to pay for the air we breath and the water we drink ... people will become so implanted with electronic devices that they will eventually become little more than robots serving their masters ... deny it if you must and show just how close you are coming to be susceptible to it all ...
I believe that God enlightens some people for the very purpose of helping to wake up their brothers and sisters so that it does not happen to everyone ... the earth is a play-field to learn on, those that do not lose their spirit will transcend this realm eventually, those that are overly impressed with materialism will just either become a 'master' or a victim of the masters ...
Thanks for the story and WOW...you and Chris have been doing a lot of work for the trail...anxious to see it sometime. There seems to be more and more deer nowadays out around the main roads...just this past week there were 3 dead deer (scrawny too!) along the same part of road. It is soo sad to see. I always bless their souls as I pass by to send them free to the other side.