Market's Down AGAIN ~ Original Haiku

in #hive-1614652 years ago

It happened again. The market crashed. The bears are going wild, the sky is falling, blood is in the streets, it's the end times. Hmm... reminds me of Ghostbusters.

Dr. Raymond Stantz : Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Dr. Egon Spengler : Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

Winston Zeddemore : The dead rising from the grave!

Dr. Peter Venkman : Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!

Again.

We've been here before and we likely will be here again. I know many are worried and panicking. Even if you are overexposed—and I hope you aren't; always remember to never invest more than you can afford to lose—rest assured that things probably will bounce back eventually.

Until then, a lot can be said for stepping back, closing the laptop, turning off the smartphone, and just taking a break. A haiku:

the sky is falling
and the markets are all red
time to take a walk

I don't normally follow the 5/7/5 count. It makes the poem far too long, I think. But in this case it just kind of came out that way.

I started to write a little bit on meditation, but that started to turn into its own thing, so I will post it later. I wrote it longhand at any rate, so I have to type it up later.

Meditation and haiku have a lot in common. Haiku are at their basic level poems of observation. You observe what is happening around you and you write it down. The best haiku aren't mucked up with opinions or interpretations about what was observed, they are simply directly what was observed. Let us recall Bashō's famous haiku about the frog.

古池や蛙飛びこむ水の音
furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

an old pond...
a frog leaps
plop!

There is a lot of imagination there. For instance, the Japanese doesn't say if it's a plop from a small frog or a splash from a larger frog or plops and splashes from many frogs, it just says "sound of water". But that doesn't matter. What matters, and the reason this has become pretty much the single most famous haiku in the world, is that this is such a perfect example of direct observation.

Meditation is about not thinking, not talking to yourself or listening to the voice in your head, it is about experiencing the world directly without the filter of the mind, and haiku is exactly the same.

But I digress. To go back to what I was saying before, don't worry too much about the red market right now. It will get better. Instead now is a great time to go take a walk. Go fart around, as Kurt Vonnegut would have said. (and if you do so, bring a notecard with you and write down a haiku while you're out there)




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    Oooooh. And I learn more about haikus (haiku's?). Excellent! !LOL

    Meanwhile, I !LUV this reminder. Thanks Kurt!!!! 👇

    Go fart around

    I just might 😉

    I tend to stick with "haiku" even for plural cases since that's the Japanese rule and it's a Japanese word, but I think most English speakers probably use "haikus"

    haha glad you enjoyed the reminder. Kurt would be happy.

    !PIZZA

    Got it!

    Ha! He probably would be! 😍

    !LOL

    Did you hear the one about the giant pickle?
    He was kind of a big dill.

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    I am still learning. I just need to read more about Haiku. As a self-directed learner, I will take every opportunity that can exercise my brain and sharpen my knowledge. Thanks for the brief information.😊

    Good job! 😃

    I have some articles about haiku I wrote up years ago. I'll update and republish them sometime here so you can see.

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    nice example of a haiku's simplicity. sometimes the third, cutting. line is made far to obtuse but this works rathere elegantly

    Sometimes... often. Especially with older haiku. Every time someone comes along and tried to make them simple, someone else comes and tries to show off their literary knowledge by making some very vague reference. But simplicity always wins out.

    !PIZZA

    experiencing the world directly without the filter of the mind

    The mind does filter things what a beautiful way to think without its filters interesting

    It makes a big difference when you learn how to get around that filter.

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    That is true but you need to be emotionally strong to receive the information as well
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