In Search Of Peace Of Mind

IN SEARCH OF THE PEACE OF MIND.

By Carlos Zaldívar

To my brother / friend: Guillermo

All my writings on the wall, my thoughts and my illusion of being a seeker for that emotional trance, called "Peace of Mind" were stolen. However, while Shakespeare was thinking in writing Romeo and Juliet, & Knopfler was composing the same Theme, what am I thinking about? Some people are traveling around the world, without exiting their homes, their houses and their countries, they’re just traveling all around their minds, from the deepest and darkest thoughts of their souls, otherwise they rather to be dead. Always, there will be a mind, with several faces and one soul. The mind is the place where the black is blackest and the white is whitest. It is, finally, the place where the center of the earth and the center of a black hole, encounter themselves. How many minds exist in this microscopic world? How many of them, do you know? These questions, maybe are unanswered, but Do you have a soulmate? If yes, you answered one. Every day minds are born, die and get lost in another dimensions as the 7 sins; dimensions where minds, souls, bodies, and heaven & hell live.

What was the thoughts of Glenn in space? Being there for second time maybe is where you asked the destiny of God, or Satan’s home, or simply where lust and love live, where mind and soul completes your body, and you can imagine the whole world in peace; in its peace of mind. Further more there is an utopic thought: my mind in peace (or should be: my mind in pieces?) Well, not being an animal for Skinner I affirm my mind is not broken, is living complete among the oceans, earth and space of this dimension, at this time, even time doesn’t exist. Right or not, Marx wrote: "We have to avoid the destruction of the man by himself", and it could be one principle for this search. Mankind really means that, a kind of combination of soul and body, where both ingredients are increasing day by day, living day after day, and why not, dying night after night. What, How or Where is the difference between life and death? The man who has the answer, imagined and dreamed voyaging around the world innerself; and finally, left his body with a psychiatrist; and his soul, still flying with an angel or just burning between the dust of hell, nearby Hitler, the greatest leader.

My mind, your mind, our mind. All of them are connected by a real world, and sometimes we all escape from reality, becoming in masters of reality, where we rule the world, as we grow up and reach the grateful trance of being and living in nowhere. Could be that stuff that takes us apart of the reality, called "Rock & Roll", or sleep all day and all night; both are escapes, but just one is a subreality, its a better way to go on with these heavy pounds of cloudy dreams in the mind. Yes, this mind is engaged with all my veins and nerves where "Rock" is surfing by itself. And I recalled my entire life, just by praying, promising, or just listening to some albums like: Alchemy, Pulse or Reunion. But, who else can obtain these effects? Who else is searching his peace of mind? Who else is thinking in his first meal, his first day at school, his first kiss, his first love or his first lost pain? Let me tell you: a Friend.

Friendship is forever. Minds and souls get connected through some events, as music, books, movies or just by having the same goals. In that dimension, where the lost and found souls, without their minds and bodies encounters, are the sympathy of Devil & the hallowed name of God. There is a crossroad, called nowhere, where nobody wants to get. Finally, as a citizen of the universe, I still will be searching for the peace of my mind, and so on. And please, pray for yourself, because you just have one life and one opportunity to live it.

This text is dedicated to my friend, Guillermo, another "Sultan of Swing", and one of the "Children of the Grave". Thanks.

December 1998.