water barrel body soul

me: heylo

Brendan: hey duder

me: what u doin

Brendan: watching congo

sort of

me: congo? what is that

Brendan: the guy who wrote jurassic park wrote a book about gorillas and the jungle and they made a movie about it

me: ooh

is it an adventure movie?

Brendan: it's sort of like, these people go into the jungle to find a type of diamond right?

and these super intelligent gray gorillas kill everyone

so they send in this special gorilla guy who taught his own gorilla how to speak using sign language into the jungle and they go to get the diamond

Sent at 1:31 AM on Monday

me: oh yea I've seen that movie

i liked it

Brendan: it's sorta good

what are you doing?

me: being online

Brendan: that's all?

me: drinking tea

writing on my blog

i was up until 5 am

Brendan: cool beans

oh yeah?

me: yea

my friend's going away party

smoked too much

Brendan: too much weed?

lulz

me: too much everything

slept till 6 pm today

not proud

Brendan: no probs

party animal

me: wrote for an hour this morning, an analogy between a barrel of water and the body and soul

haha

Brendan: gimme the short version

me: yeah animal, i suppose this is the natural progression after being housebound for a summer

body is barrel, soul is water. what happens when a barrel of water is exposed to the elements?

Brendan: i dunno; i suppose many things

it can harbor life forms

it can empty somehow

it can freeze

it can evaporate

me: exactly, it changes

it becomes something that it couldn't become if it were not in that barrel

and all these changes break down the barrel

but in breaking down the barrel becomes what it could not be if it were dry, and sheltered

it becomes, in it's broken pieces, part of the life that develops between the water and wood

it transcends it's original form

by becoming alive

it's deterioration unlocks it's potential to support the continuance of life

and the barrel's original purpose is the contain water

water that is contained by a barrel is bound, compelled to exist in only one of the many ways it can exist, but it can do certain things existing that way, that it could not do if it were not bound

the soul is the same

Sent at 1:43 AM on Monday

me: the soul is bound by the body, compelled to exist in only one of the many ways it could exist, but by existing with the body it can harbor life, support life

Brendan: gee