Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Simply put, we were taught to: Finish high school, go to college, get married, secure a lifetime position with growth potential and insurance, plan for retirement, retire, travel, and then age off into the sunset of success before we die. I have questioned this my entire life. My nephew dies when he was a toddler back in 1983. He never went to high school. I have had three friends kill themselves and several family members drink themselves straight into the ground. They all shared a few things in common in that this plan, this so called plan for our success has not a damn thing to do with being successful and/or happy. The whole thing, the entire idea that was layed out for each one of us, well, many of us, is a fabrication of epic proportions and should be of no real measure against anybody's particular position in life at any one point in time.
Monday, September 10, 2018
If it makes even the slightest bit of sense... if it costs me more time to understand, then that is time well spent. Every time someone goes deep into an unknown world, their experiences within that world are relevant and extraordinary. In such places, embellishments are commonplace and very often unnecessary. The people they meet, the places they go all form a chain of events that mold a life. It may not be the life of fiction like in the movies or in dreams, but it will be real and it will have a flavor all its own. That is all anybody can expect from this life... just to live in ways that are open to experience and yet careful enough of those who play it all as if it were A Game.
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