Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta
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The Conspiracy of Movement
In the modern day, the majority of Americans use cars for everyday transportation. Out of 335 million Americans, there are 276 million registered automobiles. 91% of American households have access to a car, and the average citizen spends more than 100 minutes within a car every day.
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta2 years ago in The Swamp
Emptiness
When we fill things, it is because we believe them to be empty. Yet in reality, they are empty only after we decide to fill them. When something needs to be filled it is because it is empty. Yet what defines this emptiness? Is nothingness itself lacking, for lacking substance? Or is nothingness full of emptiness? It's hard to be sure. Yet what I know, is that we as human beings often make ourselves emptier in the service of our fulfillment. We are born complete, lacking nothing. Yet the more time we spend in our fully realized bodies, the more we seem to believe that we are missing something. We focus intently on what is lacking from our hearts, and who is lacking from our beds. We focus on what is lacking from our memories, from our pockets, and from our relationships. We focus as well, on what is lacking from our bodies. We imagine somehow, that if we had these things, or if these people were greater presences in our lives, then things would be different. And perhaps they would be. But they are not, and they will not be. Our belief in the very concept of lacking is what leads us astray. Lacking may exist on the minute scale, yet never at the scale of the human, or the divine. Nothing is missing from the universe. There is only what is, and what is not. What should, would, or is supposed to exist, simply does not exist. Except when it should, would, or is supposed to. We are not truly missing anything. Yet our belief that we are, causes us to miss everything that we are not missing.
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta3 years ago in Humans
I used to Love You
“I love you Mihret.” This I said while I stared softly across the bed, whose covers had been overturned in passion, whose milky white was illuminated brightly by wisping tendrils of light which crept nostalgically through the window. She stared back upon me, a dreamy mist obscuring her eyes. “I love you too, Miles.” God how I had prayed for those words. I wanted her indescribably, for every time I had her it seemed she slipped just a step further away.
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta3 years ago in Humans
This Woman Who I Loved
I’ve had trouble letting go of love; of the love I’ve felt which I shouldn’t have felt. Of the longing which kept throbbing inside my chest after every other piece of my heart had been broken. I longed for the woman who scarred the most intimate chambers of my individual soul, and I longed for her while she did it, and I longed for her while she walked away.
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta4 years ago in Humans
How to Garden with God at your Side
A garden is not a toy, or a prized possession. Not a beautiful cabinet or a well fashioned chair; not a fine pair of shoes to be worn and then discarded or a Japanese car to be polished and flexed. A garden is a living being; a colony of beings; each interlaced and interlocked amidst the other. It is a bastion of life against the frigid cold and the lifeless violence of the outside. A sheltered nursery of evolution and a refuge from the harsh trauma of collective life.
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta4 years ago in Lifehack
The Marble
When discussing habit and addiction in the human mind, it can be helpful to think of one’s entire brain as a marble course. Your mind is the marble, rolling down an endless expanse of possibility. Where will the object go? The object will always go where it is easiest to go. Sometimes this changes when new variables are added into the equation, and sometimes it remains the same. Think of a marble rolling down a course; if there is a downward slope, eventually gravity will draw the marble in that direction. But the added variable of a plastic blockade, or a finger exerting force in the opposite direction; well these are liable to change things, most importantly the decision at the end of the day that all of these calculations attempt to count toward: where is it easiest to go?
By Miles Rafael Bairley-Ujueta4 years ago in Psyche