by drifter0658
Go On The Offensive: Lie To Yourself
May 17, 2009 in Fistful Thinking By Drifter & Keem by drifter0658
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
~Kurt Vonnegut
To get to the edge you have to get off your ass and walk over to it. You have to tell yourself the biggest lie that has ever pierced your heart. You have to offend yourself.
Ask yourself these: Why the hell do I keep coming home moaning and groaning about that job every day? Why do I turn my computer on, tell myself I’ll do something great, and end up feeling good about getting a high score in Slingo™? Why do I not care that my life looks just like everyone else who lives on my street?
Wait. Don’t ask yourselves those. I’m sorry. Just keep believing in the lie.
Don’t tell yourself a bigger lie. The one that says, “I suck, because I’m giving my life over to what everyone else says is important.”
That’s right. You are nothing more than a husk. Drone away friend. That’s way of the masses, and they can’t be wrong.
I wouldn’t even try to make a difference if I were you. You might get hurt, and there is no profit in that is there? And if you try soooooo many times, that only means you’ll get hurt sooooooo much more often. Believe me, it’s a hell of lot easier not being who you could be than hurting yourself by finding out the joys of you.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
~Thomas J. Watson
Sure, we live in a society that says you can’t drive over thirty-five mph in certain zones. We have to be at work at 8 a.m. everyday. We have to have our garbage on the curb before Tuesday morning. But there is nothing, other than lies, that keeps you from pulling over on a hot day and running to that beautiful, babbling stream and plunging in.
There are only lies holding you back from your own power and it’ll take a bigger one to see the truth.
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“You!…You talking to me?” –Travis Bickle
Oh no. Not Travis. I think Travis may have taught me a thing or two about chucking the system.
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Hi, my name’s Erica and I’m a drone. But I pulled over and dove into Squidoo and I haven’t been the same since.
These two posts serve a good purpose. By helping us discover more about ourselves, you’ll encourage better writers and better lenses. Painful to look at oneself, but such a worthwhile journey.
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Excellent!
Ha, right on man — and what the chef said, Hey! “…You talking to me?”
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Be your own counsel. Not you, Drifter, but anyone who is droning on. Ask what it is you’d like to do/be/have. I can’t imagine that every (any?!) living being truly wants to put in 16-hour days in a life-sapping “career” to pay off a $500,000 mortgage! …But, sadly, I do believe a lot of them haven’t asked themselves if they do.
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