inducing life-crisis-cathartic release (2)
Step 1: Potential. http://www.hypeless.net/25lines/?p=836
Step 2: Reality
The ability for someone to think about their reality, accept it, and dissect it is paramount if one is to let go of their fear, doubt, and self-hindrance. The most basic element of life, of understanding one’s existence is to think about the state of the world. It’s easy to be distracted by shiny things, it’s easy to avoid thinking about this thing that is most core. It is easy to implement a kind of routine that takes us away from ourselves, and thus from reality.
Escapism is easy. Reality is hard.
To dream of love is easy. To actually live it is really hard.
To live false hope is easy. To find and know true hope is hard.
To consume is easy. To create is hard.
We are, as people, input/output carriers. It would seem that we operate asynchronously (mostly) as far as communication is concerned. To hear and speak at the same time is to neither hear nor to speak.
So it takes great fortitude in order to take stock of oneself, with no sugar coating. No glaze layered on top of it. No rose colored glasses tainting how you view yourself and take stock of just a few things. In otherwise calm silence, taken away from the world’s distractions. (distraction is, of course, for another day)
What is it, exactly, that you were?
What is it, exactly, that you are?
What is it, exactly, that you want?
What is it, exactly, that you want to become?
What is, precisely, the difference between you as you are, and you as you want to be?
It sounds simple enough, doesn’t it?
The simplest things are usually the most difficult.
If I haven’t said anything profoundly stirring, it’s because this phase is the exact opposite of profound. It’s dirty, gritty, detailed, foul, and painful, at best when done right. Unless you’re super human, and some of you are.
