Questions in need of answers

The dance of life they have been dancing leaves Adam pretty confused sometimes. He has lived his life thinking all things can be viewed in different ways and that there is no one correct way of doing things. But Eve brings out the argument that “this is true for most people” or “you are very strange in thinking like this”. Adam knows he is not conventional. He feels “believing” in convention is like accepting a slow death. But he also knows there are no absolute right or wrong. Or does he?

He has all these questions he wants to ask the world and see how that famous “most people” think about them. He puts the responsibility of answering them on the shoulders of whoever is reading them now!


- Can getting violently angry or just angry be legitimized by saying that there is a reason to be angry?

- Can loosing control and clarity due to intense anger legitimize anything at all?

- Can temperamental weaknesses be remedied? Or do we have to accept them as fate?

- Is there a difference between Adam and Eve when it comes to using physical violence?

- Can there be reasons for accidents involving physical violence although, of course, they’d rather not have happened? Is it arrogant to state those reasons after apologizing for the accident?

- Could taste be explained scientifically? Can knowing the scientific facts alter our likes and dislikes? If so, can having unreasonable tastes be legitimized?

- How much lying is acceptable? Can silence or keeping the truth hidden be considered lying? Where is the edge between a white lie and a darker lie?

- Can exaggeration be lying? How much of it would be lying? Under what circumstances is exaggeration equal to being inaccurate?

- Is it just coincidence that “Adam” evolved into “adamant” while “Eve” evolved into “evil”?


These are just a few questions waiting for your comments.

Preaching

Adam has a mind of his own but nevertheless Eve is a preacher.


They both believe they have much to learn from each other and the relationship they have. They believe they must have a karmic connection that brought them together. They are so eager to find out the significance of their togetherness that they tend to forget the process is the destination. They keep thinking of a brighter future while they ignore the fact that all they have is now.

They wish to learn from each other but they don’t know how. They both have sizable egos. They both like to think they’ve been dealing with their egos, as if what they are doing does not make their egos stronger. They imagine themselves to be very flexible and adaptable but they both have their bony parts.

Adam sees life as his teacher. Each person and experience is a guru to him. He doesn’t feel the need to categorize them as useful learning and useless learning. He feels everything happens for a reason and as long as he has a relatively clear vision to feel it, he doesn’t need to be explained what the underlying lesson is. He can learn from life itself. He strongly feels that trying to put his learning into words is vain.

Eve believes in education. She is more educated than Adam. She doesn’t talk much and when she does she talks with a purpose. She is generally closed until she receives a question. That way, she believes, she avoids blah-blah, which is purposeless talking. She feels life is meant to have a purpose which can be explained. She feels all actions need to have an aim.

With the purpose of making this world, Araf, a better place to live, she starts with making Adam a better person. She knows constructive criticism is the way to go. She loves to express her criticism, although Adam feels she doesn’t take criticism that well herself.

Adam feels, although they have to learn from life and grow continuously, teaching and learning can be fun. He accepts the fact that some of life’s learning is not so easy to take, but also thinks criticism is easier to receive when it is done more fun. When Eve criticizes him harshly, he feels hurt and sometimes becomes reactive and responds in ways that he comes to regret later. When he sees she is wrong in some way he rather says it straight and lets go of it rather that making it into the most important thing there is. He is usually pretty afraid of Eve’s explosiveness. He knows he’s not perfect. He knows nobody is (if they were, they wouldn’t have been kicked out of Heaven in the first place). Mostly he says his criticism in a joking way or any other way he thinks won’t hurt Eve. But when Eve sees something in him that needs criticism, she gets angry and her anger makes things harder.

They are learning. Eve is trying to learn to control her anger which she knows takes hold of her pretty often. She says this hadn’t happened before she met Adam but accepts that the seed of it is in her. She says the reason she gets so furious sometimes is that Adam makes her angry! Adam sees he has to learn but he cannot handle Eve’s anger either. He feels hurt and when he is hurt he gets reactive.

They are learning. They are dancing. They don’t wish to hurt each other but they are having many accidents trying not to step on each other’s feet.

The Beginning

It’s not certain how old Adam was when he had that operation which removed a rib from his chest but it is pretty certain that he had a great shock when he opened his eyes and met Eve. He felt a funny feeling in his stomach, his throat knotted and he lost consciousness. To this day he is still trying to gain his consciousness back. Sometimes everything feels so real, sometimes all feels like a dream.

He knew from the first moment he saw her that his life would change for good. He would feel incomplete without her and would want to unite with her somehow. He would try time and time again and many times would give up about it but the feeling of incompleteness would not let him be by himself. He knew he was doomed to seek his female counterpart. He was doomed.

So he had to say goodbye to Heaven but also didn’t immediately make it to Hell. They were caught in a limbo in Araf, the land between Heaven and Hell. One day, they would feel closer to Heaven and the next day they were already at the gates of Hell. They could make do with all the mediocrity of Araf if they wouldn’t be pulled to either side. They wanted to chill out, give thanks and be satisfied with what they had (they had apple gardens all around the place). But could they do it?

Would it be too arrogant to expect to be settled in the middle world in their present state? What was it that they had to give up and let go in order to have some rest under one of those trees? Was there anything like enlightenment without turning into a heavenly angel or burning in hell?

This is the diary of their quest to find out...

Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve
by
Bob Marley

The lord named Adam and Eve,
to live a happy life.
In the Garden of Eden,
but they disobeyed.

I wanna know,
why they sin,
in the Garden of Eden.

It`s a devilman`s affair,
in the shake of a surfband.

And they broke the fruit of life
and everyone of us is living in sin.

Any anywhere you go,
woman is the root of all evil.

He was the first one to break a fruit
and everyone of us is living in sin.

The lord named Adam and Eve,
to live a happy life.
In the Garden of Eden,
but they disobeyed.

I wanna know,
why they sin,
in the Garden of Eden.

It`s a devilman`s affair,
in the shake of a surfband.

And they broke the fruit of life
and everyone of us is living in sin.

Any anywhere you go,
woman is the root of all evil.

He was the first one to break a fruit
and everyone of us is living in sin.

This is an early single by Bob Marley.
Because it hasn't been published as a part of an album it is not very known but it is a great song.
You can click the title to hear it on youtube.