TunnelVision
When you live for a sole purpose and value nothing outside of that. Folk might say you’ve got tunnel vision.
But if they ask what happens once that one thing is removed from your life, I guess it becomes something different.
I’d like to think it would be difficult for me to see myself doing anything other than art, but the reality is that I’d rather not live to see that grim day at all. I don’t see what point there is to living if I am unable to create, and create anything of substance at that. I am a creator, this does define, validate, and substantiate my existence and so what happens outside of this “tunnel” is truly of no concern to me.
I am not searching for myself. I did once, and in deep solitude I found. I know life is a journey and that each journey is different.
In the opening of the Quran there is a passage that reads “guide us to the straight path. The path of those upon whom you (God) have bestowed favor…”
…a path… I live with a certainty, and calm, content at the fact that I no longer float aimlessly in life waiting for external validation of internal value. I am me, and in saying that I also believe that for my particular journey I am on the straight path. Tunnel vision works quite well here, I’ve no need for distraction and I’m happy to know that although I might miss things outside of my contained world, I still progress each and every day.
OJ
