Society's Mantle
In life there are very few constants.
1) Love exists, and is the greatest tribulation of our species.
2) Ignorance is something one must constantly struggle with, for:
3) Nothing is static; everything changes.
Those of us who constantly wish for a path to follow are intellectually and spiritually lazy.
Wishing there was a path to follow, some benevolent intangible being watching over us and wanting good things for us is just a product of our own fear of failure. Society sets upon us a mantle of expectations that we tend to follow more closely, or desire more deeply than that which is given us by parents or guardians, regardless of what we want or think is right.
Society says we should be successful, get married, have children, work hard, play hard, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.
this fear of failure, that we have one chance to do what will work the best for us, or we will never be happy, is like a suit of chains mooring us to an ever-sinking ship. This suit of chains can be cast off by the individual, but it usually requires the ship hitting bottom before we figure out that we can, in fact, reach the surface again.
Yet, when our ship sinks, we feel as if we have no hard surface to stand on, no base point, when in reality, any base point we set up is always floating freely.
Even Islands become inhabitable.
My advice to you is to take risks. Nothing is gained by wishes, nothing is gained though worry. We can only live and be happy through throwing ourselves to the four winds, and waiting to see where we land.
I have decided to do what I want. Descretion will be involved, realism will abound, and yet, I will live my life as I see fit. Doing the things that make one happy is a vital and neccesary part of having a life worth living.
On a completely random note, the profession of bartender is a lower paying, more effective form of psychologist. Bartenders give you advice on life, cheer you up, provide for you when you need it most a prescription for mood-enhancing drugs and hands-on prevention of severe or fatal overindulgence, and tell you, with authority, when you are out of line. Without bartenders, this world would be a much darker place.
1) Love exists, and is the greatest tribulation of our species.
2) Ignorance is something one must constantly struggle with, for:
3) Nothing is static; everything changes.
Those of us who constantly wish for a path to follow are intellectually and spiritually lazy.
Wishing there was a path to follow, some benevolent intangible being watching over us and wanting good things for us is just a product of our own fear of failure. Society sets upon us a mantle of expectations that we tend to follow more closely, or desire more deeply than that which is given us by parents or guardians, regardless of what we want or think is right.
Society says we should be successful, get married, have children, work hard, play hard, die young and leave a beautiful corpse.
this fear of failure, that we have one chance to do what will work the best for us, or we will never be happy, is like a suit of chains mooring us to an ever-sinking ship. This suit of chains can be cast off by the individual, but it usually requires the ship hitting bottom before we figure out that we can, in fact, reach the surface again.
Yet, when our ship sinks, we feel as if we have no hard surface to stand on, no base point, when in reality, any base point we set up is always floating freely.
Even Islands become inhabitable.
My advice to you is to take risks. Nothing is gained by wishes, nothing is gained though worry. We can only live and be happy through throwing ourselves to the four winds, and waiting to see where we land.
I have decided to do what I want. Descretion will be involved, realism will abound, and yet, I will live my life as I see fit. Doing the things that make one happy is a vital and neccesary part of having a life worth living.
On a completely random note, the profession of bartender is a lower paying, more effective form of psychologist. Bartenders give you advice on life, cheer you up, provide for you when you need it most a prescription for mood-enhancing drugs and hands-on prevention of severe or fatal overindulgence, and tell you, with authority, when you are out of line. Without bartenders, this world would be a much darker place.
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