Imagine

2-19-11
10:39pm

home, been getting work done, walked with mom today, read early on then more later... then more at baristas. john came up we talked picked up pizza watched water at dam, and obviously im not into relating the events of my day...

What if we woke up tomorrow morning with no memory? All of us? And we didn't remember that this one was our brother or teacher or doctor or student or friend or lover... what if we woke up and weren't bound to the roles we and society have cast ourselves into? What if in the morning we forgot all the things we were supposed to want and weren't aware that any of our desires were forbidden? Who would we be, as individuals and to each other? Would we, perhaps, just take off and live in caves or tents with whomever and how ever many we chose? Would we wind up in the same combinations, as familys, cliques, friends, lovers? Would we reorganize, and whoooooooooooooo would we beeeeeee? It occurs to me that the idealistic freeing ourselves from the past bit is utterly impossible unless we experience total amnesia. Otherwise our memories follow us around, shaping our present and future with our past. We make no decisions without some thought to who we were previously, before that decision, we weigh risks based on previous let-downs. Because we have memory, none of us is really free from our past. I'm not saying I want to wake up and have to relearn how to walk and flush the toilet, but it might be nice to have a selective amnesia in the morning. I would love not to know any social rules, like when I was a kid and just did and said whatever the hell I wanted. I wish we'd all just wake up tomorrow, forget our grudges, forget the rules, throw ambition to the wind and just sit down and love each other.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.