This is my reset button, my refocusing tool; this short piece helps me clear my mind. It pulls apart existence on a personal level that seems to ground and focus the brain. Seed is attempting to place a mindset of clarity through a form of what I would call introspective intellectual meditation. In addition, it poses a simple question.

You wake up. You open your eyes. Another day.

You begin to think about the coming minutes and hours, the way to work, what you will eat. You see the structure that has been built around you your entire life. From the day you were born, every single year, every single memory, every event of your life stacked up and up and up to create the human being you are now.

You live in the moments that are passing by. Once a moment passes it becomes a memory.

Stop. Go all the way back to when you opened your eyes this morning.

Stop and wipe the slate clean, push away all those structures and patterns and memories and images and doctrines and faces, and rules and boundaries.

Push it all away for a moment. Just an open sky remains. An open sky in your mind. Free to wander anywhere, free of the limits imposed by our memorable lives.

You are a single human. One of a family. A family of a neighborhood. A neighborhood of a community. A community large as a township. One of several townships that encompass the metropolitan area of a city. A city connected to several other cities within the lines of a county. One county of many becoming a state, and one state in a union of states called a country. A country that includes hundreds of cities, towns, neighborhoods, families and people.

These countries vast and large link together with continents and oceans. Within the entire world there are various countries controlling every single square inch of the entire known world. They are all meshed together one by one, as you scope out to see the beautiful blue-green sphere we call home. Earth. Look at our home and our society; wonderful and mysterious. It is a gift.

We come back to you, a single individual. One entity, though vastly important. The universe like a pond of crystal clear water streaked with waves, swirls, currents and an often quiet immobility so still one’s reflection appears. Like a tiny pebble dropped into the pond, your thoughts, ideas and actions ripple through the world affecting everything and everyone in infinitely complex patterns. Our lives like a constant rainfall shake the universal pond, shaping everything in our world, seen and unseen.

You are here and it is now.

What will you do?