How To Be a Strong Person

You want to hear my inner voice??  I'm calling to all of you.  These are my innermost beliefs, the things that push me forward, through the piles and piles of bullshit.

I am at a point in my life where I truly feel solid on the fact that we create our own problems.  We are the manufacturers of complexity.  And we thrive on it.  Those thriller movies/books where the plot is so entangled that we can’t not think that the author is a mad genius.  We live for that crap, and understandably as those things are fascinating.  But do we need that in our lives??  Hell no.

Day to day, we really need simplicity in order to have peace of mind.  And our brains are complex.  So sometimes, a lot of times, that is complicated.  It isn’t really natural for a lot of us.  And yet we wait for this to happen, sometimes chase it and make things harder.  You have to actively seek solitude and actively create it, actively fight anxious/unproductive thoughts.  You can’t just wait for it because it won’t happen, like anything else.  YOU are responsible.  Not God, not anybody.  YOU.  And I will be the one to tell you that because I do think a reliance on religion can cloud the path for a lot of us.  The weight’s on YOUR personal shoulders, to figure your shit out.  Not God’s/Allah’s/Whomever’s.

If it rains out, it rains out.  If you are angry at someone, you don’t have to be.  You can, not like someone without wasting your time thinking about them, most of the time (I’m not talking about complex emotional healing here, mostly just the day to day, ups and downs of our own emotions/inner peace).

Another thing I want to mention is—we aren’t telling each other crap…Why, because the 50s were 60 years ago.  What happens when you tell someone something you think is important?  If you are right, you have fixed something.  If you are wrong, hopefully they or someone in the room will fix you.  That’s called GROWTH.  So say whatever the hell you think.  Because if you don’t, nobody gets better.  You are an integral part of this world.  Your personal view is unique to yourself.  SHARE it.  You need it, everybody needs it.  It’s stupid to think that you don’t count because often the norm is incredibly wrong or could severely be improved upon.

I know it’s incredibly easy to fall into the thought that what has been done for years and years must be right.  Guess what, so were a lot of extremely shitty practices.  Racism.  Sexism.  Rape, yes these are all integral, shitty-ass parts of human culture that need to stop.  There’s a lot more than needs to be fixed.  Things aren’t close to perfect yet.  You don't need to be normal because guess what, society's version of "normal??"  It ain't perfect.  We haven't even begun to encroach on what an acceptable human being is.  Little things you do are a part of making that better.

Let’s look stupid together so we can make the world a better place.  That’s called being a strong person.  It gets easier and easier the more you push.  Forget how to be "normal."  That will restrain you.  That is bullshit.

Alright?

Also, calm the fuck down.

Thanks.


PS:  I leave you with this final thought--Innocence is, at ground-level, the purity of fitting into society's norms.  It gives two feet to walk on with no substance.  It feeds expectations bearing no fruit.  Grow.