Fully Functioning

to be fully functioning would mean to have access and direction over every part of yourself, to be able to run, to dance, to be still, to be able to think critically as well as crazily, to be able to laugh and cry without fear, to be able to be kind and yet strong, determined and yet open-minded, these are alternative senses or emotions that are so difficult to hold in one place at one time. Imagine the true strength of the ballerina. It takes an enormous amount of strength to dance with grace and to rise and soar like birds. to be fully functioning is not the norm, many successful people today are not. They can do the numbers, they can talk the talk, they can set out the critical thinking that gets things done. But they do not show the grace of the ballerina, being able to show strength with compassion is something that only the most fully functioning can do. where we go now as a society is entirely and utterly a clean slate - even without money and jobs we can rewrite things quite dramatically, we probably won't but we can. obama is only a figment of our imagination, he is only a symbol of the possibility that we have to be fully functioning, he may yet turn out to be a machine, but he is our current hope, beyond political dogma that if there is a chance for wholeness and unity, he is it. he will have an enormous impact on us and on men - men will notice his grace and ease and his paradoxical nature and they will emulate - i love stuff, i love it all, i am frightened and excited, sad and inspired, worried and calm, these dual ideas and feelings are odd to experience but they are functioning, they are real.