Feeling light

Matthew has a great post about his life when he was "enlightened" and didn't have faith. His experience was very similar to mine:

Yet somehow I was proud of my deep dark edgy miserableness. I consoled myself that everyone else wasn’t brave enough to face the nothingness. But I was. I laughed off everything and found myself dreadfully serious...Oddly enough, when I was enlightened I felt burdened...I didn't take life seriously but I thought of death incessantly.

Read the whole thing.