Life is sweet and life is exciting and life is scary and life is painful and life is short and life is crazy To not make it quite lovely and wonderful is a kind of strange perversion, a malfunction of the mind and spirit To pretend it’s not quite painful and short and …
Tag: Fear
Darkness Is A Proxy For Truth
Life is bright and life is dark We fear the dark, obviously Fear of course distorts perception We experience an urge to go where the fear is, where the darkness is To pursue the truth Where it’s most concealed In the dark You’re going to die, You are not going to …
Fear As A System To Navigate
Everyone knows SOME form of PAIN and SUFFERING from birth, the first less-than-comfortable moment But EVEN WITHOUT IT — one has INSTALLED FEAR OF UNKNOWN, as well as prior FEAR templates (e.g. spiders) =basic self-preservation instinct Ergo one HAS FEAR, from very early point That fear is, preferably — OFFSET by growing RESILIENCE …
Naked Before Unknown
Existence is infinite and mysterious You are small and finite You are merely that which you know What you call you — is merely the common denominator in all the stories you collected over your lifetime And those stories are countable, And so are you While the rest is infinite Immeasurable Comparing …
Mediocrity More Scary Than Failure
What do you fear more? failure? or mediocrity? Both are a social construct Alone in the woods — it’s annoying when you are building a small shed, and the structure collapses somehow It’s annoying, but You’re not a “failure” You’re not a “mediocrity” Those terms exist only in the society Now what do …
Vulnerable, but Also EMOTIONALLY
There’s the entirety of your psyche: what you want, what you like, what you do, what drives you, etc It’s your thoughts and feelings and actions You feel more or less comfortable with revealing this PSYCHE of yours We tend to feel the most comfortable with our actions — since everyone can see them …
Adults Aren’t Mature, Just Stuck Up
Adults are not more mature and serious, They are only less cheerful and playful, more stuck up and fucking lame and uncool Kids are fun and mischievous and bubbly They are also inexperienced and irresponsible and unserious Most adults are inexperienced Life is vast Most man did fuck all Their experience is closer …
To Know Who You Are Is To Not Know Fear, Not Know Doubt
To know who you are is to not know fear, not know doubt All fear is fear of death All doubt is doubt of one’s own survival, fitness To know who you are, truly know, is to not know fear of death Because to know who you are, truly know, is to know …
VULNERABILITY is SELF-CHALLENGING is GROWTH
Is vulnerability weakness or is it strength, actually? Vulnerability exposes your weaknesses. Therefore it exposes you. The real you, complete you: which is not just a fragmented, “perfect” you — but one which is complete: including your weaknesses. Therefore vulnerability exposes you to criticism. Therefore it exposes you to the (UN)TRUTH. It exposes you …
Ultimate Loss
every loss in life is just a prelude to the ultimate loss every loss in life is just a prelude to the ultimate loss one day you give it all up why’s there all this suffering and grief upon losing loved ones or experiencing misfortune? why’s there all this suffering and grief — …