Beware of Lifes Illusions Essay -- Personal Essays

Ive looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIts lifes illusions I rec everyI really dont know life at all-- From the song, Both Sides, Now, by Joni Mitchell Meaningless Meaningless says the Teacher. Utterly meaningless Everything is meaningless1...I have seen all the things that are done under the sun all of them are meaningless, a chasing later on the wind2. The words struck me like a slap to the face. Their truth, cold as ice, was suddenly clear to me. All the things I had been striving for, success, fame, fortune, even the very human desire to be popular with my peers, they are all but chasing after the wind. They can never be caught. The moment you think you have them they go twirling off in some new direction. We had been invited to a fall get unneurotic at a friends house. As we drove to the party, there was a deer, newly dead lying alongside the road. Its once graceful form, now lay in a crumpled heap, seemingly cast aside, like an unwanted rag doll. The flies were already striving to commit its body t...