Perhaps there is no clear path

Perhaps there is no clear path.  

So get married

or stay single,

have kids or don’t,

go meditate for 30 years up some mountain

or head to the pub.

Whatever.

Perhaps it’s all bullshit

and all wrong.

Perhaps being truly awakened has nothing to do

with how much gluten you refuse to eat

like it’s nothing to do

with how much money you make

and all to do

with accepting the tragedy of life itself

yet choosing to live life anyway.

For no matter the extent

of your readings of Eckhart Tolle,

you’ll always be fighting that feeling

that something is missing

and the reality that death is just around the

corner.

So perhaps our greatest battle

is not with any government

or illness

but with the intrinsic futility of our lives

and enlightenment is a measure of

how happily you can

still

sing and dance your way to the grave

—how well you can laugh at it all

anyway.