Wednesday 30 March 2011

Have you ever felt the need to unleash your inner child?  Take advantage of the fact that you are brilliant and exceptional?  Ever actually done it? My life has become about the quest to understand why we end up where we do.  Surrounded by people we often don't like, and forced to do work we generally stomach for the paycheque but has no redeeming value and adds nothing to our life experience.  I suppose it's a selfish quest.  I'm sure there are psychologists everywhere that will line up to tell me I'm being unreasonable.  My goal is to achieve peace for myself and everyone around me.  To create a world for myself where the people I know are able to contribute to the world in the way they want to, and not the way they are forced to by circumstance or financial requirement.  What I do understand fully is that success in life is not absolute.  It is a sliding scale and we as humans need to be able to understand that nothing is ever perfect and often our lives are not as horrible as we think.  People fail to recognize success in stages or portions, and it is the absolute that ties us down and holds us back from the attempt.  The old adage that life is the journey and not the destination, but that is obscured daily by the need to feed yourself and put a roof over your own head.  So what is it that will make your life better?  And don't give me absolutes - we need reasonable desires that are attainable, and the small steps we take will lead us to this mythical place where we are essentially happy.  I don't want to live life in 'the bubble' so don't give me your ‘reason’ we need logical resolution to life problems here people.  There will be pain and disappointment and loves will be won and lost.  What I am talking about is the regular life of the average person working for the better.  Becoming the clearest version of yourself while living your life to the fullest extent available - not the dream life, but the true life.  Live the life you are given.  I know for a fact through all the success in my life I do not live the way I should.  I get bogged down in the details and lost in the absolute version of my ideal life. 

So who am I?  I am a writer and an artist.  I specialize in keeping everything I do a secret.  It's far easier to hide my work than it is to show it or try to sell it.  So far my strategy is working perfectly.  Not only have I not sold anything there is very little chance it will happen any time soon.  So bring your talent with me and together we will remain anonymous yet content within our little circle.  We will fulfill our need to be successful by doing nothing and wondering why nothing happens.  Or not....