Everybody is Telling You How to Live (Let Me Participate)

It’s all you see. Endless articles of information are screaming at you, giving you some life advice. What worked? Somebody had an epiphany and felt like expressing it to the world. (I’m no different.) I’m absolutely a hypocrite.

I’m here to tell you right off the bat, “I’ve no clue.” No, we take bits from all over and attempt to apply them to our own lives. It’s OUR life, after all. It’s important that you distinguish yourself completely from every other individual. You’re you; who knew? But now, guess what? You’ve got a limited amount of time to experience all of “this.” The jury is still out on that one. I don’t see the possibility of a “forever” event too often. Geez, how could you wrestle with that notion? Forever? There’s no way. No, we die. We go away. We see others go anyway. Ourselves though? Oh, no, I’m not at all sure. Not sure if I’ll ever be.

So we’ve been given this calculated amount of time to experience. Strange it is too “the experience.” It’s changing all the time. Just when you think you’ve got a grasp on it all, it slips from your fingers like fine, silky sand. What a damn shame. Give me a breath already, will you? Lend me the opportunity to bask in all this for a bit. I can accept the temporary nature of things, but stop with the overwhelming notions of eternity. It doesn’t stop. Like a broken, clanging bell. The clock struck midnight seemingly hours ago, and yet the incessant ringing is still here with me. What do I do about that? Shoot, I found company. You hear it too, don’t you? I’ve got a few others who are doubtful, but I reckon they’re just lying to themselves. Either that or they are deaf.

Okay, so essentially what I’m attempting to say is that sometimes there are no answers. That’s okay; I’ve come to peace with that. Your repeated attempts to seek clarity are noble, though. They make you a keen and sensible human being. All this information you’re bathing in can be just a bit overwhelming, that’s all. There are literally zettabytes of information across the entire world wide web. You’ve got to parse through it all with care. Even this article itself: does it offer anything of merit to the reader? That is entirely up to the coherent individual. Left in time, though, it stands as an overarching warning of content consumption — for myself anyway. You can take in too much sometimes. Never take it all at face value. Inversely, never read too much into ANY of it. That’s about it, I suppose. Cheers. JD