[MF] Is the pinnacle of human experience...

[Kevin Perez]

  Thanks Ted.
   
  I would have responded earlier but I didn’t know what to say.  But I didn’t want to say
  nothing either.
   
  Thinking about this during my ride home from work today it occurred to me that my
  struggle to find an appropriate way to respond is really what was bugging me all along.
   
  The quality of life is mostly about relationships and how people respond to one
  another.  It’s entirely dynamic.  It’s about the flow of energy between people.  Take
  away the flow and the energy and you don’t just have static quality.  You have an
  illusion of quality.  You have nothing.
   
  Ted, during the past 23 days, your 11 messages and my 13 messages account for
  more than half of all posts to this forum.  The next highest posters are Ian and Marty
  with 4 messages each.
   
  So I’m riding home and I’m thinking
would it matter if I didn’t respond to Ted’s last
  message?  Should I respond only if I feel I have something significant to say?  Is there
  any significance, any meaning in, what seems to be
communication?  And where’s
  the quality?
   
  Although Pirsig provides plenty of dialogue in ZMM he doesn’t develop the story
  behind the story.  He says it’s not relevant to the Chautauqua.  And he says he’s
  honoring Sylvia’s need to not been treated as an object.  And again, I think there’s a
  deeper truth.  Whether it was intentional or not I don’t know.  But from what I can see
  I’d say Pirsig avoided the depth of human relationships and all the meaning that goes
  with them.
   
  And so I think about my involvement here
and the quality of life here...and...
   
  Any thoughts?  Any feelings?
   
   
  Kevin Perez
Onward and downward.  Be compassionate.  Love.

			
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