Life On A Wing
It is said that the wings of a dragonfly are like the illusions of this world. It has certainly given me something to ponder. Is the idea of “happily ever after” just an illusion? Or is the whole of life an illusion, a play which can be changed at a moment’s notice, so that we can make of it what we will?
According to my research on the British Dragonfly Society’s website, this is species Libellula depressa, a female (or possibly young male) Broad-bodied Chaser. What further thoughts could that spawn? What illusions do I chase? What illusions do you chase? Is the meaning I find in this sighting an illusion? And does it matter?
“It’s whatever makes you see, makes you believe…” - From ‘Illusion and Dream’, by Poets of the Fall.
June 25th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
Ahh, good questions bud, and ones that I surmise have no answers but personal ones! I’d say: What is “Happily Ever After” anyway? Happiness seems such a trivial, if not, relativistic concept. Being happy for the rest of your life, doesn’t that come down to choice as much as it does to good fortune?
Interesting name for that dragonfly though, but at least it does explain why we call it “Libelle” in Dutch!
What illusions do I chase hrmm, I suppose the one that states that I actually have something to chase in, other than a grand illusory hamster wheel! And to think….I *hate* cheese!
June 25th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Heheh… exactly bud, personal answers. And yes, what IS happily ever after? Most of us want some kind of final “yes, things will be ok”, but in truth we can never really have that. Even if we get just what we want, it’s unlikely that we’ll be happy for evermore. Perhaps it’s more about having things work out how we want them to in a very broad way. To say it of a love and family ideal, you might say that it’s marrying the person that you love and raising a family with them and saying at the end of it all “yes we had rough times, good ones and bad ones, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way”…
And even then….
Heh, it’s easy to see the tangles we can get with illusions. Let’s just stop trying for anything specific and go out and enjoy the essence of what’s on offer
June 26th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Hah indeed bud, “happily ever after” seems more likely to work as a change in attitude of a person rather than a change (or non-change) in our situation.
Happiness is a state of mind!
June 26th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
And what a state my mind is in!
Agreed bud. Unreasonable happiness!
June 26th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
Hey, a dirty mind is a joy forever
June 27th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Haha. Absolutely!