Freedom, Madness; and the Power of Existentialism

 If you don't demand to be accepted as something you're going to get the base level of whatever you're offered. 

Camus and the existentialists were onto something. 

On the spectrum between the most bare-bones existentialism where a French kid decides he wants to be cool, and all-out New-ageism where people walk around thinking they're cats and dogs, or flamboyant drag-millionaires (when their bank account is actually empty), there is a sweet spot. 

Those in the know gamble on this sweet spot. 

In this sweet spot is everything you never expected to find. 

It is the ability to be something great, where you're respected and you respect yourself. 

It is married to the bedrock of reality, while also being able to travel to other galaxies. 

There is no harm in testing where the limits lie. In asking around without asking around; Where am I on the spectrum, according to you? 

It's something like a dart-game. You're aiming for your best place in society and continually trying; but you're not going to get down on yourself when you're shot down. 

You're going to shoot for the highest and get nothing short. 

Look, it comes to this: If you don't shoot for the highest, you'll only ever get something below that. 

The better you feel, the more likely you are to shoot for higher. 

This can be represented by the layers of an onion. 

In the middle of this onion are things that you know. In the very very center is your life force, and then it comes out more polluted the more you get out of that onion. 

The more you leave that life-force, the more sketchy things become, and the more trying becomes necessary. The next level is ego or self. 

After ego or self there comes another layer. That layer is the society's view of your. 

After that layer comes your identity as per society: Lawyer, street-sweeper, whatever. 

After that is the hard shell that protects the egg. 

*It can be achieved without being based on the real: Look at Dan Bilzerian or Trevor Noah. 

*It can be too caught up in societal expectations: Look at Leonardo da Vinci who upbraided everyone who wasn't like him. 

If you're a woman and you don't ask that manager who's in an upper eschelon to you for the lunch meeting, you'll never get it. 

If you don't ask that pretty girl out to lunch you'll never get it. 

And there's something snivelling and cowerdly about never going for anything that you truly wanted. 

Like the man you want to date (if you're a woman) who is never really your first choice. 

Or the woman you never really wanted (if you're a man) 

So making a Pereto model of all this; what you can do if left behind is: 

1. Build a strong foundation: This encompasses health and well-being, especially structural integrity, like a strong core, healthy muscular-skeletal, neurological mainframe. 

2. Get your room and immediate environment straightened out. Make it as noble as possible. Get your clothes sorted. Get into the right clubs, the right circles. This is not hard. We have modern internet.  

2. Go out and conquer mindset: Don't just sit on your wet moldy diapers of introspection: Go out and ask around for the highest, you have nothing to lose.