Awake.

We go through this life in stages, stages of consciousness. We are born and completely overwhelmed with this grand world even though we are only shown a small part of it. We peer at everyone and everything with pure curiosity  with the desire to learn. We are born questioning. We are exposed to different people and experiences. We go to school and are conditioned to listen, not to ask, not to seek, but to pay attention so we can pass exams. The desire we are born with slowly being diminished into nothing without most of us even knowing it. Of course this isn't the case for everyone, there are always exceptions. Somewhere along the way a lot of us re-cultivate this desire and start to ask hard questions. We take a step back and look at our beliefs, morals, and lifestyles. We start using logic instead of emotion to drive our decisions. This is when we regain ourselves, when we find out the most about who we are, when we see how we can handle the truth about our existence.