Forever Happy
BY STEPH NERES There is a love-hate relationship with the self. We want to feel calmness and quietness of the soul, but we hate having to deal with our feelings and thoughts, we hate even to have them. Do you know that some people wish they were robots? Yes! Some people wish that they didn’t have freewill-they wish someone else was taking care of them and make their decisions for them. But the same people also hate the numbness of the heart. I am the type of person who would randomly go for a walk…seeking a way to escape for a moment. I am the type to go for a drive at night to experience the night sky, I randomly go to remote places to find myself--to deal with my thoughts and be a natural human being without all the artificiality of this life. I enjoy knowing that I can feel the wind and what it does to the hair on my skin, I long to hear the birds sing, to be able to breathe fresh air, and watch lizards and chipmunks play. Haven’t you ever done those things? Trying t...