Here is my product of our collective poetry writing in class the other day:I watched the mountains as the plane ascended.Smaller, smaller and yet bigger, bigger.The ground is coming faster and faster as l'm falling and falling.The feeling of freedom and release overwhelms me.From society and the world I am free.
I wish to confess that I found this task really hard and especially sitting here and trying to formulate something stimulating to say. This poem was describing the liberation I felt when I went skydiving last July in Queenstown, New Zealand. I could quite easily describe this as some kind of religious experience as I realized how insignificant I really am. As an Atheist I quite often envy people who are religious as I assume feeling a pure embodiment of your faith in the everyday must be just as freeing as skydiving. It makes me question where can Atheists find their spiritual support? their spiritual capital? I like to think I find mine in my future. I envision to have a future free of capitalism and hate and filled with organics and compassion. I just struggle though with the irony that in order for me to obtain this future, my paradise, I need to play the game of society. I feel its unfair that in order for people to hear the words I have to say about peace and justice, I need to study Religion but society feels it unnecessary to study such a freelance unpractical topic, so society takes away the funding and doesnt allow myself or others to study to the extent that we wish. Now if I had a faith I'd probably cope with this struggle better but I dont, so what's an Atheist supposed to do?
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