EMPTY SPACES
"Weekend Binge": a weekend stay in the hotel room, fu<%ing in every way imaginable, only break to eat and sleep.The Hebrew King Solomon wrote in the Book of Ecclesiastes, "there is nothing new under the sun".
While I slightly agree, I find it doesn't stop people from describing old things in extremely creative and new ways.
This is why when I hear a new term; I ask "What does it mean?" The latter is how I came by the definition of the aforementioned "Weekend Binge".
A friend wrote that he knew one or two women who spent some time with an unnamed triple threat celebrity. I was curious to know how the women rated the star's "performance."
Although, I never received the answer to my original question, I did get what I call "T-M-I (too much information) about the celebrity's sexual appetite.
See: Weekend Binge
I was disillusioned by the fact, if true, someone who I believe is talented beyond compare has such pedestrian desires.
I don't know why I was surprised though; I've learned, in my work as a journalist/stewardess, the more amazing the feats we accomplish in our public life, the more boring our pursuits behind closed doors.
Unfortunately, the reverse seems to be true too. If our public exploits are next to nil the more outlandish and/or egregious is our private activity.
Also I suspect whatever we do in public is in direct proportion to what we do in private.
For we humans find the most unimaginative ways to fill our "empty spaces". Sex, drugs, overindulgence of sorts whether it is eating, talking, shopping, gambling, Et cetera.
Even the goal of filling "empty spaces" itself is commonplace once you hold the activity up to the light.
It seems that we humans find it nearly impossible to "just be".
Maybe this is what Solomon experienced when he wrote about "nothing new under the sun".
Physically speaking, this may be true since energy can not be created or destroyed but it can change form.
I can understand, however, someone who was described as the wisest man in all the land, would think he's seen and done it all and think everything is in his words "meaningless, meaningless".
And that is the key; all that is on the outside is "meaningless". Nothing outside of you can fill you up especially when all you ever need is what you have and that is on the inside.
This is exactly what Solomon comes to say in chapter 12 after all his opining and subsequent whining - "Remember your Creator in your youth."
Which in my opinion, sounds like an inside job.
Remembering your Higher Power; your Divinity is what's in the "empty spaces".
This is why we are never satiated by what we experience on the outside of us. Filling our "empty spaces" simply makes "our cup runneth over."
So while this triple-threat celebrity seeks to find his 'Heaven' in a Weekend Binge; at least it's good to know we actually never leave home without it.
DAY 13
Gift: Innocence
Posted by Mel at 12/14/2010 10:15 PM 
Categories: Spirituality
Tags: Empty Spaces Dark Energy Solomon Ecclesiastes
Categories: Spirituality
Tags: Empty Spaces Dark Energy Solomon Ecclesiastes
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