You wrote something to your peers a few weeks ago, and for the sake of your words never meaning anything someday, I DARE you to spread the word.
I have developed a new ostensibly irrelevant ritual. Once or twice a week, sometimes more, I have been conditioning myself to enduring a bath of the hottest water. When I start each soak, I turn the blue knob a little less. I used to be a fan of the familiarly warm. Now I will not stand anything less than the uncomfortably hot.
It has been roughly three months since this began. I can not say I only use this as a relaxation method. Maybe I enjoy the diminutive amount of isolation and the chance to control my body’s tolerance for once. I choose to be naked, shrinking in a dark room, smothered by the tranquil heat.
THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE I MAKE IT HAPPEN...
Cut the water. Replace with life. LIFE. Bask in your perceptions until your skin withers. There is no difference between crossing the line of what is secure and only accepting the lukewarm. Familiarity is a cop out birthed by fear. Stop telling yourself “everything happens for a reason.” You are setting yourself up for the supreme disappointment brought to you by expectancy. What is the use of letting your life live you when you should be living YOUR life?
WAITING AROUND FOR FATE IS TIRING.
You never bleed, sleep, cry, or meet a stranger to build up to a more prominent event in your life. Coincidences only exist because a human elects to act upon impulses. We are cutting ourselves short by giving the credit of our exploits to the abstract element of providence. We are throwing away precious moments of our lives on meaningless chatter to rationalize our actions.
You go in to every decision fully aware of the consequence. Playing the innocent is getting old. We are getting old, and our excuses are most certainly getting old. Do not lie, cheat, steal, and demean a person, only to victimize your own self when you are no longer the center of the universe. The only lesson you have to learn is to be responsible for yourself because no one else should be required to. Again, stop telling yourself everything happens for a reason, and you will be pleased by your own independence.
Being a noble person involves acceptance. Put your “heart” in front of your ideals. Stop fighting your battles with a book or a set of beliefs you know not everyone shares. Stop living by assumptions and refusing to see the other side of situations. Your stubbornness will always hurt you the most. Stop letting the ideals of a media you have nothing to do with control the perception of beauty and morals. The mirror will never reflect the actual person who looks into it.
DON’T BE FAKE.
Being uncomfortable is beneficial to the advancement of our society. A dental hygienist is an easy way out, but will never make history. Mediocrity is about as useful as Marilyn Monroe. Appealing and easy, but horribly overrated and ineffective. Clichés will get you get no where, and sadly, most of the human race is not going to achieve any sort of the “American Dream” by believing such. Then again, this American stereotype we are all attempting to attain is the ultimate cliché.
EVENTUALLY, THE WATER BECOMES COLD.
Nature happens. The bath will end, just as the cycle of human life will conclude. How, where, why, and with whom you pass is your choice. You set yourself up for each moment of your life. This will all take place because of the sequence of choices, not to teach anyone but yourself a lesson. Stop being selfish. A person does not pass for your own benefit. They pass because man is mortal. Mourn a loss and stop lying to yourself.
Go. Start a new ritual. Become a better person. Stop living a life of trite bullshit. Someday you will decay, but your words and actions can be preserved if you set yourself up for something more than ordinary.
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It has been roughly three months since this began. I can not say I only use this as a relaxation method. Maybe I enjoy the diminutive amount of isolation and the chance to control my body’s tolerance for once. I choose to be naked, shrinking in a dark room, smothered by the tranquil heat.
THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE I MAKE IT HAPPEN...
Cut the water. Replace with life. LIFE. Bask in your perceptions until your skin withers. There is no difference between crossing the line of what is secure and only accepting the lukewarm. Familiarity is a cop out birthed by fear. Stop telling yourself “everything happens for a reason.” You are setting yourself up for the supreme disappointment brought to you by expectancy. What is the use of letting your life live you when you should be living YOUR life?
WAITING AROUND FOR FATE IS TIRING.
You never bleed, sleep, cry, or meet a stranger to build up to a more prominent event in your life. Coincidences only exist because a human elects to act upon impulses. We are cutting ourselves short by giving the credit of our exploits to the abstract element of providence. We are throwing away precious moments of our lives on meaningless chatter to rationalize our actions.
You go in to every decision fully aware of the consequence. Playing the innocent is getting old. We are getting old, and our excuses are most certainly getting old. Do not lie, cheat, steal, and demean a person, only to victimize your own self when you are no longer the center of the universe. The only lesson you have to learn is to be responsible for yourself because no one else should be required to. Again, stop telling yourself everything happens for a reason, and you will be pleased by your own independence.
Being a noble person involves acceptance. Put your “heart” in front of your ideals. Stop fighting your battles with a book or a set of beliefs you know not everyone shares. Stop living by assumptions and refusing to see the other side of situations. Your stubbornness will always hurt you the most. Stop letting the ideals of a media you have nothing to do with control the perception of beauty and morals. The mirror will never reflect the actual person who looks into it.
DON’T BE FAKE.
Being uncomfortable is beneficial to the advancement of our society. A dental hygienist is an easy way out, but will never make history. Mediocrity is about as useful as Marilyn Monroe. Appealing and easy, but horribly overrated and ineffective. Clichés will get you get no where, and sadly, most of the human race is not going to achieve any sort of the “American Dream” by believing such. Then again, this American stereotype we are all attempting to attain is the ultimate cliché.
EVENTUALLY, THE WATER BECOMES COLD.
Nature happens. The bath will end, just as the cycle of human life will conclude. How, where, why, and with whom you pass is your choice. You set yourself up for each moment of your life. This will all take place because of the sequence of choices, not to teach anyone but yourself a lesson. Stop being selfish. A person does not pass for your own benefit. They pass because man is mortal. Mourn a loss and stop lying to yourself.
Go. Start a new ritual. Become a better person. Stop living a life of trite bullshit. Someday you will decay, but your words and actions can be preserved if you set yourself up for something more than ordinary.
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Hallam Foe is my new love.
I love nothing more than the love stories a taboo would be embarrassed of.
I love nothing more than the love stories a taboo would be embarrassed of.
