According to Buddha

When we learn to stop and be truly alive in the present moment, we are in touch with what’s going on within and around us. We aren’t carried away by the past, the future, our thinking, ideas, emotions, and projects. Often we think that our ideas about things are the reality of that thing. Our notion of the Buddha may just be an idea and may be far from reality. The Buddha outside ourselves was a human being who was born, lived, and died. For us to seek such a Buddha would be to seek a shadow, a ghost Buddha, and at some point our idea of Buddha would become an obstacle for us.

the sun goes down and five years gone
life goes on, yes, life goes on
i hope you caught up with your dreams
i hope you saved part of yourself for me

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Edmonton, Alberta ~ in/outside downtown ~ November 2015.