Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 6 - Consciousness and Character

Consciousness-the thing that does not want to die-has nothing to do with the experiences my body, mind, and heart have to bear. It cannot be shaped. It only has one hunger: to go on and on and on. Your core self, the soul, the one that is aware, is fundamentally separate from the physical body, the logical mind, and the emotional heart. The pain you’ve endured didn’t shape your consciousness-it only happened to the body, the mind, and the heart. Consciousness, in this sense, is an unchangeable, independent entity. It isn’t defined by what you’ve lost or what you’ve suffered. It is a raw, unquenchable hunger to exist. Its single, relentless drive is to go “forever and beyond,” no matter what the rest of you must bear. This creates a profound separation: the “you” who suffered in those relationships, who lost those moments, is not the same as the “you” who is aware of that suffering. The body, mind, and heart may be broken and scarred, but consciousness remains untouched and unshaped. It simply observes. Its only true desire is to continue. There are three entities, if you want to call them that: 1. The body - which has senses. Read more from here...

I was silenced at my questions- each one met with a quiet no. No one ever saw the artist’s heart hammering inside me, the poet’s tongue, the philosopher’s gaze. Read more from here...

It’s my job to roar. When Ronie Dinosaur roars, even Godzilla looks like a toy lizard. Godzilla’s roar is sound ripped from the throat- loud, radioactive, cinematic. Ronie’s roar comes from deeper, Read more from here...

Ronie Dinosaur walks alone- not from necessity, but from habit and from style. He moves down streets where some girl might pause Read more from here...