You say that you’re disillusioned like it’s a bad thing
My whole life I’ve heard people talk about being disillusioned in one way or another. Not once have I heard this with anything but a negative connotation. This one line poem alludes to another way. Some years ago, it dawned on me that losing your illusions is a great thing. Disillusionment may, in fact, be one of the grandest goals in life. What greater meaning can be attained than aligning one’s life with reality, as it is, not as we happen to think it is. And how can this happen except by letting go of our illusions? I would like to see humanity reclaim the term disillusionment. Will you join me in claiming an attitude of gratitude when our illusions run into reality and those illusions lose handedly? Let’s rejoice at this inescapable process of disillusionment on the way to enlightenment and more truthful living. Alas, hope springs eternal, even in the face of determined cynicism.
