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Scrambled cities: If you're not gonna do the work(on your soul), then you might as well work til you die

 There are two tiers in normal life. Those who are survive and those who thrive.  But nothing is a mistake in life: Nothing comes by chance. You have to prepare for it.  If you thought life was about making money and beating out the Jones's, you've lost already.  Life is: Desire for connection. All unhealthy competition is isolating. We live in an isolated-enough world already. This connection comes from a surprising place: Self-acceptance. A lot of us need to go back to the classroom. A lot of us need to take a silent breather and check in with what we need. This takes serious work. It's the real work. It relies on respect for others and self-respect.  A lot of people in the self-help community try to push the self aside: Manning up is the only side of it they see. But there are certain non-negotiables in this life. Certain things we can't cheat ourselves out of. We are not a piece of meat being acted on.    However, this is where God comes in. Some o...
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 I need that crazy heady feeling of never quite being stable. I want to run and jump trains and fight dragons and do crazy things like that. This is going to be the key if I'm to get out of my present muck. I often think that it's everything but maybe it's simultaneously nothing. Maybe we just get stuck between states and it's all just a mix of both. I try to see things as black and white and it comes back to bite me quite often. It's five minutes to go and I think today will go okay. It's a little dark in this room because there's no electricity. The whole school's getting flooded. Quite happy that this is a short week coming up. Quite happy that this is the final sting in the scorpion's tail. Or is it bad for me to say it that way? Is it too negative?

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