Stationary Consciousness

In the interest of actually fulfilling the title of this blog and more importantly, attempting to put into words just how it is I've been feeling lately, I'd like to suggest a large, yet reduced-scale metaphor to my reader's imagination. Stand, if you will, in the center of a highly condensed universe, shrunken (and with the vacuous intergalactic space removed altogether) until you can, with perhaps slightly superhuman eyesight, view it's entirety in a glance. In a very pre-Gallileo sort of way, imagine the Earth right beside you in the middle of that twirling stew of gas and stars, entirely visible to your keen vision despite it's squeezed and miniscule dimensions. First and foremost, understand that, being you, it should be your primary concern to watch and monitor what exactly it is you are doing on Earth; for it is not exactly you who stands in this universally central location with it's grand vista, but more accurately your sense of consciousness. Try, also, to imagine the difficulty of keeping an eye, much less both, on the physical you running amok upon the crusty blue planet before you with the infinite sights of the universe for your gawking pleasure. If you've imagined this correctly, as I intend for you to, you no doubt are feeling at least somewhat worried that you will lose track of that little speck* of you sitting at the computer. This is precisely how I feel. To quote the wisest of invertebrates, "blink and you'll miss it." I don't think I blink excessively, but I do so fairly frequently (about once every 3 seconds seems to be my resting rate of blinks). That's a lot of chances for my little speck to make a run for it.


*I in no way mean to demean the significance of any individual's life, particularly one who actually bothers to read about my own; however, relative to the vastness of even a highly compressed universe, a person on the same scale would be exceptionally small, even to our superhuman consciousness. If your consciousness deals better with things on a large scale, please feel free to retry my metaphor using real-life proportions.