I hope I haven't ruined your life and happiness by the ideas I've ever put in your head, whether I intended to or not. Some others have shown concern about your current path, and they feel helpless trying to help you with it, but I keep telling myself: this is your journey, you're still in the workshop, hammering away at your personal beliefs by the heat of the forge.
I hadn't realized if this is actually what you wanted in the first place, and if you even know where you'd rather be. I wonder if I overstepped, or overestimated how much I'm attuned to who you were, and if I've nudged you into a road lined with thorns.
If you think you wouldn't have fared any better if I hadn't said certain things, then I guess that's just fine, though.
Heartbreak being a "narrow" issue isn't always true. Some people have that ghost over them all their life and lead them to make choices they wouldn't make if they were free. People have died of a broken heart as much as lived through them. A crack in the pillar can make a wall pretty, or bring down a mosque.
Goldie mentioned tearing down the whole building after seeing the gap in it revealing it's made of tissue paper, of course. The other part, which people sometimes forget, is building it back up with something that serves you better. (Concrete, and maybe pictures of tanned, sweaty construction workers in batik shorts.)
Rejecting what 80% of people around you believe to be right doesn't immediately mean you stop being a nice, even hopeful person.
Emptiness isn't where you should be; it is not an end, but a temporary rest spot. Sooner or later, you will have to pick yourself up from the ruins, dust yourself off, and start walking. You should be somewhere, or going there.
I threw this into your journal comments because it was a surprise hit (amid MUCH controversy) at a time in my life when I was inhabiting a similar spiritual space as you (and Mr. Partridge in the video)
There's nothing 'bad' about your Rage Against the Deus Ex Machina. An acquaintance of mine, long ago, said that 'once you realize the oppression and falsity of the prison constructed about you, you naturally want to tear it down'.
Ironically, he was referring to his sex'n'drugs partying lifestyle before he became a self-righteous asshole. Or maybe it was someone in The Matrix, I forget...
The point is (if there is one) where do you channel all that angry energy? Into ranting? Or self-improvement?
Take the good bits out of Religion and leave the bad bits for the fundamentalists to harp on about. I can't
*shakes your paw* Hey there Ryuu, I'm a person and I'm pleased to meet you, oh and I don't hate you or try to judge you. I have my failings but I try to better myself. Will you keep trying too?
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I hadn't realized if this is actually what you wanted in the first place, and if you even know where you'd rather be. I wonder if I overstepped, or overestimated how much I'm attuned to who you were, and if I've nudged you into a road lined with thorns.
If you think you wouldn't have fared any better if I hadn't said certain things, then I guess that's just fine, though.
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Goldie mentioned tearing down the whole building after seeing the gap in it revealing it's made of tissue paper, of course. The other part, which people sometimes forget, is building it back up with something that serves you better. (Concrete, and maybe pictures of tanned, sweaty construction workers in batik shorts.)
Rejecting what 80% of people around you believe to be right doesn't immediately mean you stop being a nice, even hopeful person.
Emptiness isn't where you should be; it is not an end, but a temporary rest spot. Sooner or later, you will have to pick yourself up from the ruins, dust yourself off, and start walking. You should be somewhere, or going there.
Remember, I saw The Chariot in you. Ride forward.
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I threw this into your journal comments because it was a surprise hit (amid MUCH controversy) at a time in my life when I was inhabiting a similar spiritual space as you (and Mr. Partridge in the video)
There's nothing 'bad' about your Rage Against the Deus Ex Machina. An acquaintance of mine, long ago, said that 'once you realize the oppression and falsity of the prison constructed about you, you naturally want to tear it down'.
Ironically, he was referring to his sex'n'drugs partying lifestyle before he became a self-righteous asshole. Or maybe it was someone in The Matrix, I forget...
The point is (if there is one) where do you channel all that angry energy? Into ranting? Or self-improvement?
Anyhoo,
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*shakes your paw* Hey there Ryuu, I'm a person and I'm pleased to meet you, oh and I don't hate you or try to judge you. I have my failings but I try to better myself. Will you keep trying too?
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