Sandspur Opinion Column #1

How long does a man live, after all?
Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
A week, or several centuries?
How long does a man spend dying?
What does it mean to say 'for ever'?
-Pablo Neruda

My friend Parker believes in "The Net" theory. "The Net" theory is how one experiences their reality, and our experiences are energy. As we continue on with our lives, our memory keeps

The universe is a place where time does not exist. What I mean is, instead of saying time is a flowing river, it is more accurate to say that it is a lake with millions and millions of tributaries. This theory enables time traveling because one would be "hopping" from one stream that is parallel to another.

Maybe our

This is one of my favorite poems and I constantly refer to it. Since we can all agree that nothing in the universe is ever created or destroyed, our being is recycled along with other beings' being. Maybe we are not looking for our soul mate but soul mates. Maybe those we hold near and dear are our soul mates. What does the term 'soul mate' mean anyway?

I believe that we are composed of a whole bunch of molecules of every being you can imagine that once existed on this planet, and through death, our being is mixed and reforms us as different individuals. What I'm getting at is: we are at ease and experience a kind of closeness with certain people because we used to be One.