Ferris wheel ride $1 - Exploring How to Find Yourself in the Rat Race of Life

Poetry reading &
Personal development series:
“Ferris Wheel Ride: $1

with Jennifer Kumar

Thank you for spending your valuable time here, today.

Ferris wheel ride:
$1

Photo credit: photo_gratis @ flickr

©2012, Jennifer Kumar, Owner and Program Director
authenticjourneys.info -- authenticjourneys@gmail.com

Observing in familiar
territory...

Bodies roaming
inside
Socially fabricated
bubbles.
Secure balloons:
Never able to float.
Photo credit: CharlotteSpeaks♥{Charlo tte.Morrall} @ flickr


Asphyxiated without
knowledge.
Photo credit: brdavids @ flickr


Dissatisfied as a drone clone.
Individual ambiguities cyclone

My most
disparate
Desire For
liberation.

Photo credit: Ben Fredericson (xjrlokix) @ flickr


Feeling
detached.

Floating
above,

transient.
Photo credit: Asa Delta Brasil @ flickr


At the time I wrote this poem,
I was just starting my life.

What I mean by that is I moved
out of my parent's house, I was
going to college; I had two or three
jobs. Things became easy very
quickly. Almost too quickly.
Things became habitual, Ok, yes,
the schedule changed slightly from
day to day. I might go to work in Photo credit: gadi @ flickr

the morning and school in the evening,
or school in the morning and work in the evening, or I might have
English class in the morning one day and English class in the evening
the next day.

Take all that out.


I noticed that no matter
how my schedule
changed, it was easy to
complete the schedule.
Maybe for some people
this is a great
success, and even for
me, I can say, "Yeah, it's a
great success."

I completed my schedule day after day week
after week without much incidence or worries
or complaints. But, it got me thinking, "How
could it be so easy?"


I sort of detached myself from
the situation; I was looking
down from above, observing
my familiar territory. What did I
see?

I saw people running in this rat race; this socially fabricated situation. We fabricate
our lives, I believe, so that we feel secure. We do the same things day in and day out,
they become habitual, we don't even think or question why we're doing them. And,
though this brings a lot of security into our life, and gives us some kind of pleasure,
for me, I felt I was losing myself in the process. By doing all these "habits", by doing
these things everybody else was doing already I wasn't giving myself time or room to
know who I was. Why was I doing what I was doing? Did I like it? Why do it and
where would it take me?


It kinda scared me.

I saw all these people doing
the same thing day in and
day out; without thinking,
that's a "drone clone" in
my poem... I saw all these
drone clones walkin' around
doing the same thing
day in and day out, and
it kinda freaked me out.
Photo credit: carlos.a.martinez @ flickr

I don't wanna be a drone clone.


I always wanted to be a little different than the rest of the people.
Not because it's the 'cool thing' to do, but we're all
individuals, we're all human beings, we all have something
wonderful and unique to contribute to the world and if everybody's
numbed themselves down to be drone clones to get some kind of
security in their life, but lose themselves in the process, I felt as
though.... what a shame, and how sad. How sad it is to live a life
knowing that there are so many unique people out there but being
numbed down by the schedules and situations of life to create
security we trade off ourselves.

We almost lose our own breath without knowing about it. We
almost lose our soul without knowing it. We become 'asphyxiated
without knowledge.'


So, then you might say
Jennifer, "You told me
about your entire
poem, but what about
that... title! 'Ferris Wheel
Ride -$1,' what does that
mean?"
Photo credit: rumpleteaser @ flickr

Ok, well I was tryin' to come up with a title that could represent something very average
and normal. So, a Ferris wheel ride is a ride in a carnival. Everybody loves to go to a
carnival. Some people say life is like a carnival. If you leave a carnival without riding a
Ferris wheel, as many may leave life by riding the rat race, you haven't went to the
carnival, you haven't lived life. That's the kind of analogy I am trying to make with this.
And, why $1? Well, One dollar is easy. Most people can afford a dollar. And, there's no risk
involved. You could easily spend a dollar to ride a Ferris wheel as you can easily spend
your time in creating habits to be in the rat race, but would spend a thousand dollars for the
same Ferris wheel ride? Would you spend your time in a different way to get to know
yourself better?


That's a risk that many people don't take, not only because society doesn't
encourage it, but we scare ourselves away from doing this. We scare ourselves
from spending time with ourselves to get to know who we are as a person and to get
to know our true meaning and purpose on this earth.

Don't let yourself be a person who listens to this message and decides that my
purpose is meaningless.
You are an amazing person.

You are an individual like no other.

There's a goldmine inside of you. Do not let
that go to waste.

Let us; the world get to know you for the
unique and awesome person that you are.
Photo credit: egor.gribanov @ flickr
Give yourself a chance to shine.


Thank you for watching!

Want to talk or meet with me to discuss your
purposeful, authentic life’s path?

Contact me, Jennifer Kumar
authenticjourneys.info
authenticjourneys@gmail.com

©2012

Ferris wheel ride $1 - Exploring How to Find Yourself in the Rat Race of Life

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