Deferred Membership

I think relaxed spirituality is easier to join in on when you're older.

"In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand."
-Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do (and likely a paraphrase from a Mahayanan text)

Wisdom comes with age. I accept my ignorance with neatly folded arms. I need not embrace this kind of ignorance, I am compelled to accept it for the most natural of reasons. I'm young and ambitious. That's not to say that I have any specific ambitions - at night I dream of what was rather than what will be - just the type of unfocused ambition that naturally comes with youth. Filled with thoughts of the lives that I might live, the dreams I might fulfill, the adventures that I might someday call my own, I can't expect myself to lay back and enjoy a peaceful existence.

Others like me like to believe that they can - some have successfully convinced themselves - but really it's a misled belief. People often say that after a rough week at work, or after a turbulant relationship, or other stressful passages; I think what they really mean to say is that they need a break from their lives. When it comes down to it, after a lengthy vacation, they'll be the first ones to push the envelope; the devil makes business for idle hands.