Perhaps

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Ask me what I want in life and that becomes a conundrum

Maybe to live good and expire in a loved one’s bosom

Just maybe or maybe not

What do you live for my dear gentle reader?

Maybe I need fourteen companies,twelve cars and a Labrador retriever

A luxurious house and a loving family

Maybe to be a grey haired grandparent with my offspring around like an army

Maybe nothing at all

Maybe everything

But wait, what’s the point of it all?

What if you just die?

What if we live for no reason at all

Maybe we’re born to drown in afflictions,swim in success and pass out poorly or peacefully, either either one

What if you disappear when you die?

Maybe death is the birth to a new life

Who knows? Just maybe

Maybe those who die here are safe in galactic habitable zones

Somewhere, just somewhere that our tiny brains can not comprehend

Maybe the awareness of our impending mortality is the most influence force on our experience of life

What about the abstractions that live in our heads?

Those dreams that give us unbelievable favorable odds of hope?

The limbo journeys, the psychedelic experiences and hallucinations

Those out of body experiences that make us think we’re part of something big and significant

Maybe we are,maybe we’re not

Could it be that life is actually meaningless that the universe is irrational and indifferent and that humanity is nothing but just a cosmic joke?

Because how can I be caught in this perpetual cycle of feeling good today,better tomorrow and to feeling suicidal the over morrow?

When we look at the repetitiveness of our lives and this culturally accepted path that we are all expected to take from birth to the grave, makes one wonder and think, what’s the point?

There happens to be someone out there somewhere living some version of seemingly worst case scenario from many of us. A life without electricity,technology and to a great many other things,unaware of this literature even and perhaps a huge portion of the happenings of this world.

And there’s you and yeah of course me, atoms, “stuff” as Wright put it,stuff so completely organized across thresholds of stuff-complexity that is able to reflect upon its stuff-ness,and what an extraordinary thing it is to be alive, unaware that it’s aware that it’s alive. But from the complexity comes the love and beauty and meaning that constitutes the life that we live.

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Published by Baffour Mintah Kwasi Frimpong

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69 thoughts on “Perhaps”

  7. Great piece
    Life without purpose is meaningless. Connect with your maker, discover your purpose and go to work that’s the only way you can feel fulfilled
    But don’t be poor lmao

    Cos both the rich and the poor die anyway money can’t buy you happiness but Poverty can’t buy you shit anyway

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  12. I love it. It’s a really good and inspiring piece. Cause, what’s life without a Purpose?? We all don’t know where we going after death🙇🏽‍♀️

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  17. This is AMAZING!
    True, many out there are underprivileged unlike most of us.
    Let us always be thankful for the things (little or not) we’re fortunate to have now cuz after all whether you’re rich or poor, black or white or whatever, death doesn’t care…
    let’s make the best out of our lives now. Don’t forget your Creator along the way too and don’t forget to show love to everyone.❤️❤️❤️

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  23. Gives a whole perspective of the lives we live, especially where you put us in the shoes of the less fortunate that our worst case of existence is someone’s reality. You are blessed bro❤ the passion to write is uncommon thing. God continue to be with you

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  30. It’s nice how you can sit and think of something like this. My mind isn’t programmed for things like this. You sit at ease and produce such great pieces making it look easy and writing isn’t very easy to do. Great work bro👏👏🔥 PEACE…

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  37. The God who is in own image created you should continue to give u the knowledge to craft this witty poems every now and then. The love is deep bro . This is Raymond English Department ❤❤

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