Jim

This morning started earlier than usual. I watched part of a movie called "somewhere" and nothing really happened, but I was taken by the character's lack of "being". He had virtually no place on earth. He wasn't really a person. No opinion. No person to defend as himself. So I thought a bit about this and decided to give Jim more of an existence in the story. You know - like a real person. He'd need some sort of rationale for life - some way. Today and before now, here in the west at least, there's been beingness by religious codes. Morals and customs. What about 300 years from now? Would that be the same? So I decided to try this with Jim. Give him a set of beliefs and a rationale. A person with a purpose. Something you could depend on for the person to do and be and say and feel. Not just a ball of putty - you know!? Jim follows the philosophy and basic thinking of Jan Weber, the New Depth Cosmology founder. New Depth holds that traditional values are placed here in life, in the physical universe, already - a long long time ago. The only things that are new are the fabrics woven by thinking persons, artists , dreamers, inventers, who play their ideas and emotions against the "always been" the state of the physical universe and life - let's say- and develop a new reality that fits what always has been - call it divine intention - or whatever you like - original creation - whatever - and succeeds according to its values and harmony with the needs of people, life, and the physical laws of the universe. Don't take this too seriously - I just made this up to try it on Jim to see what happens. If he comes alive here in the story.

Jim took a long look out the viewset and wondered why he was sitting where he was. The chicken was good. All seemed so still and yet here they were travelling at hundreds of miles a second toward their destination port, Vivi right next to him, parallel tracks through the heavens. He wondered what kind of effect they were weaving here. Did it really matter? "So how's life at home?", he looked at Vivi. She liked when Jim would turn his New Depth intentions on. It made her feel special and needed. She smiled. "Harry didn't want me to leave on this trip you know?" Jim knew and he didn't think she made the right decision either, leaving her family behind for a year of scientific research, but he wouldn't tell her that. " Yeah, I remember all that". Jim noted. "How's he feel now?"  "He still blames me", she answered. "Just do well here and everyone benefits - the good sticks and the bad's forgotten over time." This had become a cliche by 2310. Jim tried another piece of "Jumpin' Chickin" and wondered about the new depth they were creating on this venture. "Thanks for asking", Vivi smiled.