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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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Part of you is stuck in the past

 A part of me wants to live in the past, 

and has cut itself off from the here and now. 

The other part of me cancels out the ghost.

of the past and says it's got no right to live. 

So there is a ghost in my past which 

can't come round to living in the present. 

And a present which cancels out 

The ghost of the past. So here we are.

We're dead to the present, dead to the past. 

And so we live as ghosts, all two of us.

Hold my beer, I say. As I vaporize myself. 





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