Thus, I Must Become LIGHT

In order to travel at the speed of light you must become light.

Or so I hear. Theoretically, it is impossible for anything other than light to travel at the speed of light. At least I recall reading that somewhere. The logic is that it takes so much energy to travel at light speed that you actually have to BE energy in the form of light. I have to admit, I am a bit rusty when it comes to physics, so I am sure that someone somewhere is laughing at what an idiot I am.

Laughter aside, there is an analogy here, and I am going to use it. It is quite simple: if to travel as light you must become light, then to have the properties of something, you must become that thing. For example, to have the properties of a successful individual, I must become a successful individual. Or, to have the properties of a millionaire, I must become a millionaire. It is pointless, fruitless, and joyless to mimic the properties of a thing and not BECOME that thing. Subluminal travel? Pffft! Why bother? Where is the joy in that? It must be luminal or supraluminal travel! You might as well settle for a trans-warp drive that only approximates supraluminal flight! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Ha.

See, this world is filled with people who are attempting to mimic the properties of the rich-n-famous or the famously-happy or the happily-enchanted. But they do so without believing that they really ARE these things. Thus, they are not. And that invites misery. I meet these people all the time. They are unhappy. It often shows. And it often rubs off on you if you let it.

Right now, I need to go upstairs and apologize to my wife. Why? Because I allowed myself to be an unhappy person and direct that unhappiness at her. I suspect she will forgive me, but maybe one day she won’t. Maybe one day I will push her so far that something will break. Maybe she won’t leave me, but she’ll LEAVE me, if you get my drift. How tragically sad would that be? Personally, I think very. I am sure she would agree.

Tomorrow, I have to get up butt-ass early and go to work. Why? Because I would like to keep my job. I can choose to go to work unhappy and cranky because of the butt-ass earliness, but I can also choose to go to work happy and anti-cranky because I have a plethora of marvelous things for which to be grateful. I can engage the people around me at my place of work, get stuff done, and do it all with a smile and a wink for all! And why the heck not? After all, if I push my employer…well, won’t they just leave me, too? Like boot me out the door? Worse yet, maybe I will leave in that “not really leave” sense but in that “oh my God, there goes his soul” sense. How tragically sad would that be? Personally, I think very. I am sure my employer would agree.

I wish to have the properties of light. Thus, I must become LIGHT.