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May

May is a beautiful month. It's full of youth and full of an unshakeable enthusiasm for life. Kind of like the people born in this time of the year. They have so much spring in them, just a memory of them is enough to make you want to love life the way it is, while it's there.

It doesn't matter what you read, whatever you do, your mind spreads all over the place and gets stuck there. I was reading many books in fragments and the contents of all those books are scattered all across my mind and my mind is scattered all around the space and time identified by humanity to be of any significance. I'm sitting inside my cage and watching the birds move along in the brightening sky before the light has taken over the entire sky.

They, the birds, move frantically, sometimes it seems they are merely being pushed by the wind in every direction, or maybe what pushes them around like that is some kind of external force like the gravity of unknown planets and stars, pulling them around in every direction, or maybe it's some kind of an internal force. The Spring is really inside them. Outside of them, there's only a stagnant air and stagnant light. They know only here and now. Little black or white indentations or specks in a clear sky that just doesn't scatter light enough. 

The light stagnantly sits in a spot, refusing to move at the fixed speed which the scientists have assigned it. It's the light of happiness, a stagnant light that blinds you, a light that just doesn't move fast enough, kind of like a car stuck in the middle of a heavy morning traffic jam, I imagine many photons just stuck in a jam of space time. While it's there, this light almost blinds you and then suddenly it's going to be gone leaving you in the darkness of your own mind. Maybe the birds understand more than us, because they don't read books, they know little and understand more. So, they don't waste their time with words, they speak in actions and reactions purposefully. Movement is work here, it's communication for them. The birds accept uncertainty as a way of life, their lives...which is just a mere reaction to the indeterminate nature of the universe. 





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