Into the Ether
This
Life
Can be so overwhelming.
So powerful
and emotional.
Also
So drab
and mundane
and predictable and logical.
I, myself
have opted for the former.
And I have felt so rewarded
for this choice.
The emotional way
isn't easy, quite difficult, actually.
But I believe that it provides you with the purist version
of the most human existence.
Which is what we were brought into existence for, after all.
To provide the most human of experiences.
But that is another challenge.
For another time.
So, yes.
My advise to you is
to read Whitman and Huxley,
a bit of Bukowski, the entirety of the "Desiderata".
And when Life is just fucking
you over like some cheap whore, just remember that even cheap whores have a purpose, or else they wouldn't even be in existence,
or serving you, now, would they?
My advise to you
Is to just take it as it comes.
Don't try to plan too far in advance, life likes to laugh at you when you make plans. (Lennon)
The next time you encounter rage, tears of anguish, or wracking sobs of grief,
Just step back into your mind, out of yourself,
Consider the breach.
This Life,
As some of us know it,
Is yes, just a game.
But it's our game, and we are so invested in it, so we must live it, with our hearts breaking, and our tumult escalating because it is likely that we will not be here again.
So we had better make this our one hit wonder,
and soak up the glory while we can.
Love one another
with as much avoidable damage as possible,
pay homage to the chance of our being,
and waste no time on the regret of the past
or the fear of the future,
Just be Now.
Just be
Life.