THE CONSTANT PRATTLE OF LIFE

Monday, April 02, 2018

Do you ever just want to get away from it all and be alone?

I do.

So does the actor, Jeremy Irons. This afternoon I have been reading an interview with him in the Wall Street Journal. Talking about meditating occasionally he said, "..." I get out of noisy places and noisy dinners. ...I can't bear the constant prattle of life." Ah. That's me too. I can't bear the constant prattle of life."

So Clif, you don't like people. No, that's not right. I like most people. Well, maybe not most people. Just some people. I know. I know. I know and understand the second great commandment. I have been working on this all my life. 

I don't think I dislike people so much. It's just that I can't bear the constant prattle of life.

I get bored and want to scream.

Foolish babble.

I'm not against people talking and expressing their opinions. 

Most of the time I'm interested in hearing it.

But when they go on and on at length in a foolish, inconsequential way. I get bored.

So I, like Jeremy Irons like to get out of noisy places and even noisy dinners. Although I do have to say that if there's dinner I don't get bored as quickly.

Maybe Jeremy just touched a nerve and it "opened the door" for me to do some babbling of my own and now I'm boring you by prattling on. Sorry.

But for me, right now the only babbling I want is from a brook.

Selah