A Journey Into The Unknown

Life and death are what makes the major part of our existence. When one is neither dead nor alive, one doesn’t seize to exist, one is simply in a state in between, the transition state, the state when one is going from dead to alive or vice versa, like the stage we are in when we first open our eyes from sleep up till the stage when we are fully wide awake and active again. If one doesn’t make a smooth spontaneous transition, one could become accountable for what is done in this transition stage. One would have to fight hard for life or death, or neither. It is at this stage when one may ask this question of life. At first, a small part of one’s subconscious will start to become conscious but this small part will increase as more time is spent in this transition stage. The more time one spends in this stage, the more difficult it is to make the full transition. In this stage, one will have all qualities of both states present. One will be both dead and alive making situations in both stages twice as difficult as they normally should be because of the countering effect. For example when one sleeps, one will not be watching his property in the event that a thief should turn up but if one stayed awake, then in the event that the thief showed up one could protect the property. If one was neither asleep nor awake, one would not be watching his property and in the event that a thief should turn up, fail to protect the property because he won’t be watching owing to the sleep state or see the property but be too tired or slow to protect the property owing to the sleep.

A life of crime is one of such in between states. The ideal thief will be prepared for both possibilities, when the victim is asleep and awake and when the job is done he can make the transition to having whatever he set out for in the first place. A life of crime lived too long will result in a permanent transition stage. As time goes by, one could find it getting more and more difficult to get out of such a life. Same for a life of drugs, one is caught between having drugs and not having drugs or a life in pursuit of wealth, one gets caught between having it and not having it.

This phenomenon is more spontaneous when one goes against the grain. If one attempts to have something he didn’t have because he couldn’t afford it, for example, say he stole it or maybe even bought it with a credit card and now lived as though he could afford it. He would now have the qualities of both situations present in his life until his life changed to one of the possibilities. Say a man couldn’t afford a Rolls Royce and acquired one. Say on a Friday night he wanted to go out for a meal, going down to the same old local pub or eatery as usual may now seem less fulfilling than what a the average Rolls Royce owner would do, however, one who couldn’t afford a Rolls Royce would probably not be able to dine at places where Rolls Royce owners dine. Whichever choice is made by such an individual at this point will stir up an inner frown because at this stage in his existence, both will be questionable by his conscious mind until he either chooses to drive a regular car like his peers, or becomes some one who can afford a Rolls Royce. Of course it will take a bit of passion to spring one into this middle state. This passion will have started off as an uncontrolled desire that got out of hand. Eventually, this desire could lead to obsession at