Umer Toor Blog

"On the sickness of age"

Readiness

You've been walking in circles,

searching.

Don't drink by the water's edge.

throw yourself in. Become the water.

Only then will your thirst end.

Jeanette Berson from Essential Sufism

So here I am!

Its a question to me yet, as to what I am here to gain? Becoming the water? Its funny, literally, to imagine ending the thirst. Its funny, ending, and visualizing oneself in eternal peace. But, its a magnamimous commodity, inner peace. Its the true Wealth of Nations. This century is bad for Adam Smith, he's getting wrong in many directions.

[That's more funny]

But, when I cross-examine all the ludicrous happenings around me with tensions that build up in my chest, I come to acknowledge: The only I can survive is by living and breathing in the world of words and ideas. No matter how stammering the words be; no matter how short-live the ideas are. They're going to become divine, than I can be on this earth. And, that's for sure. I am becoming words and that's how I can end my thirst. Its not without being here.