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People always act like situations are out of their hands.
They say they're being held down or held back by someone else, they say they're being treated like shit, they say they "couldn't get out of" doing something they didn't want to do, they say they have to be or have to act a certain way.
You are your own master. Regardless of what you've convinced yourself of, you ARE your own God.
People put aside their own feelings of whats important and their own ideals and their own personal lives for the wants of others. They say "Well I want to do this, but socially, I feel obliged to do this other thing." And about half of those times, it's to appease other people's desires.
People have to realize that the world is open. Nothing is so set in stone that you can't beat it, or that you can't make a decision that the people around you won't agree with. You can decide not to go to school tomorrow to spend a great day with someone you care about. You can make the decision to take up a hobby, or a cause, or an idea. You can decide to write a script or learn guitar, and add an element of constant creation to your schedule to make you feel more productive. You can put aside time to work on something that's important to you, and let it take up the parts of your life where you used to sit around and watch TV, or smoke pot, or drive around smoking cigarettes.
When all you do is your job and school, you make a change in yourself, you lose a sense of who you are. If there are 8,000 people going to Rhode Island College, and they go to school full time and work, and those are the only times when they're actually getting things done, they shape themselves a certain way. And if there is one Alan Sousa or Chuck Staton or Johnny Appleseed, and they get into this school/work life and if they do the same thing as those other 7,999 people, what makes them different?
if 100% of your productive time is spent on being at some job you obviously dont want forever (or else you wouldn't be in school), being in class, and doing homework, then you're the same person as everyone that surrounds you.
My philosophy has always been, if you're not something new, then you're not something.
We have enough drones. I've met enough robots.
People go their whole lives living under their parents' thumbs, or maybe their friends' thumbs, or maybe an abusive boyfriends' thumb. And to a degree, I understand that certain people were raised a certain way, and some people had to go through certain things that made them this way, but just because I understand that doesn't mean I accept it as an excuse. I understand that drug dealing makes you lots of money, but it's not an excuse to do it.
Fuck what you know, and fuck what you find to be a constant in your life. Fuck things you think you can't do, or situations where you think you can't get what you want.
Stand up for yourself every chance you get. Life will fuck you up worse than you know. Life will turn you over, fuck you in the ass, forget your name, won't even give you a reacharound, and it CERTAINLY won't cuddle with you afterwards. Bad luck and fucked up situations happen to everyone, whether you're a hero or a villian. Whether you're a saint or a sinner. Whether you're a gutless piece of shit, or an ideal-driven screamer of what you think is right and just.
Don't just take the hits. Don't just deal with what life throws at you. If you believe in something - a way of acting, a new way to deal with a situation, a way someone's doing something wrong to you - then fucking live that belief. Let the shit that you get from life come from you standing up and making your opinions and your wants and your ideals known. Don't let life fuck you over repeatedly as you in the corner, keeping your mouth shut.
If you're going to get a beatdown, then deserve it.
If you're going to be silenced, at least start talking first.
No matter how high you are, how happy you are, how set you are, something will come along and knock you so far down that you don't think you will ever get up again. It happens to everyone at some point. Somehow, some way.
So don't let a second go by without completely displaying what you think, and justifying your existance.
Let the pain you go through in life be the result of consistently living the way you think life should be lived. Turn the trails and tribulations you have to face into the products of you doing what you think is right all the time, doing what you believe you should all the time, standing up for yourself in the face of everyone, instead of living day-to-day, following the path you're "supposed" to follow, because you're going to get shit on no matter what.
There will always be bullshit.
There will always be problems.
Again, hero or villian, there will always be tears and hatred and wrath and pain.
And I'll tell you this - if I was on death row, I'd rather be a murderer than an innocent man.
The problem isn't when someone treats you like shit
The problem is when you let someone keep treating you like shit
-chuckstaton
They say they're being held down or held back by someone else, they say they're being treated like shit, they say they "couldn't get out of" doing something they didn't want to do, they say they have to be or have to act a certain way.
You are your own master. Regardless of what you've convinced yourself of, you ARE your own God.
People put aside their own feelings of whats important and their own ideals and their own personal lives for the wants of others. They say "Well I want to do this, but socially, I feel obliged to do this other thing." And about half of those times, it's to appease other people's desires.
People have to realize that the world is open. Nothing is so set in stone that you can't beat it, or that you can't make a decision that the people around you won't agree with. You can decide not to go to school tomorrow to spend a great day with someone you care about. You can make the decision to take up a hobby, or a cause, or an idea. You can decide to write a script or learn guitar, and add an element of constant creation to your schedule to make you feel more productive. You can put aside time to work on something that's important to you, and let it take up the parts of your life where you used to sit around and watch TV, or smoke pot, or drive around smoking cigarettes.
When all you do is your job and school, you make a change in yourself, you lose a sense of who you are. If there are 8,000 people going to Rhode Island College, and they go to school full time and work, and those are the only times when they're actually getting things done, they shape themselves a certain way. And if there is one Alan Sousa or Chuck Staton or Johnny Appleseed, and they get into this school/work life and if they do the same thing as those other 7,999 people, what makes them different?
if 100% of your productive time is spent on being at some job you obviously dont want forever (or else you wouldn't be in school), being in class, and doing homework, then you're the same person as everyone that surrounds you.
My philosophy has always been, if you're not something new, then you're not something.
We have enough drones. I've met enough robots.
People go their whole lives living under their parents' thumbs, or maybe their friends' thumbs, or maybe an abusive boyfriends' thumb. And to a degree, I understand that certain people were raised a certain way, and some people had to go through certain things that made them this way, but just because I understand that doesn't mean I accept it as an excuse. I understand that drug dealing makes you lots of money, but it's not an excuse to do it.
Fuck what you know, and fuck what you find to be a constant in your life. Fuck things you think you can't do, or situations where you think you can't get what you want.
Stand up for yourself every chance you get. Life will fuck you up worse than you know. Life will turn you over, fuck you in the ass, forget your name, won't even give you a reacharound, and it CERTAINLY won't cuddle with you afterwards. Bad luck and fucked up situations happen to everyone, whether you're a hero or a villian. Whether you're a saint or a sinner. Whether you're a gutless piece of shit, or an ideal-driven screamer of what you think is right and just.
Don't just take the hits. Don't just deal with what life throws at you. If you believe in something - a way of acting, a new way to deal with a situation, a way someone's doing something wrong to you - then fucking live that belief. Let the shit that you get from life come from you standing up and making your opinions and your wants and your ideals known. Don't let life fuck you over repeatedly as you in the corner, keeping your mouth shut.
If you're going to get a beatdown, then deserve it.
If you're going to be silenced, at least start talking first.
No matter how high you are, how happy you are, how set you are, something will come along and knock you so far down that you don't think you will ever get up again. It happens to everyone at some point. Somehow, some way.
So don't let a second go by without completely displaying what you think, and justifying your existance.
Let the pain you go through in life be the result of consistently living the way you think life should be lived. Turn the trails and tribulations you have to face into the products of you doing what you think is right all the time, doing what you believe you should all the time, standing up for yourself in the face of everyone, instead of living day-to-day, following the path you're "supposed" to follow, because you're going to get shit on no matter what.
There will always be bullshit.
There will always be problems.
Again, hero or villian, there will always be tears and hatred and wrath and pain.
And I'll tell you this - if I was on death row, I'd rather be a murderer than an innocent man.
The problem isn't when someone treats you like shit
The problem is when you let someone keep treating you like shit
-chuckstaton