Monday, January 02, 2006

You decide. Just you.

Alchemical Braindamage:
"What you can do, and do quickly, is take a conscious attitude to it. Right now you're probably pursuing someone else's idea of treasure at the heart of the labyrinth, and hence you're playing by the rules they taught you in order to get it.

A very mundane example of this is the typical middle class careerperson. We might ask ourselves what the fuck this poor bastard thinks he's doing in that cubicle 40 hours a week, but that's the parameters of the game for him. At the end of that road is his hypothetical treasure, his sense of bliss. Will he ever get it? Probably not, because he entered that game with no clear idea of where it would lead, or where it might end. Chances are he learned his vague dreams from someone else who lived their whole life with the same vague dreams. Another lost soul in the Hellworld of bourgeoisie prosperity.

You want to break out of that shit? Quitting your job won't do it. You'll just be broke and homeless and still wondering how you're going to get that brass ring one day. You've just fallen into a backroad of that particular Hellworld. You'll probably wander around for awhile and eventually recreate the same scenario with a few modifications. If you're really serious about getting out, then define what you want, ( which you've already done) , define what you have to do to get it( ditto), and what sort of view of life you need to make it happen. You make the rules, you set the standards, you decide if you succeed or fail. Not your parents, not your friends, not your significant other, your children, or society. You do. Your game. Your world. Your life. And if you're going to be here, then you better make your reasons good ones."

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