Success is a matter of symbiotic parasitism.. you must suck on the world, but also let the world suck on you to maintain optimum efficacy.
Also key is adaptability - in this nutritional 69ing we cannot allow ourselves to rest too deeply in a milky solipsism that dulls our synapses, nerves and reflexes.
The ideal state is kinetic.. and it is the only one in which we actually exist. If you were to freeze frame your last 5 minutes of being you'd stretch through space like a millipede through all the places you've been in minute portions of a second.
If our true state is one of motion, success lies in efficiancy, first in locating your true will, whatever goals that fuel your engine and fundementally drive you .. once identified the rest is trimming the fat achieving optimum momentum - no motion wasted, no action unnecessary.
Once all this is in place, no diversion can ultimately overcome you, because you absorb its energy for your own purposes.
Mastering drive will make you stand like a normal man, not in terms of regular, but in terms of fully functioning. But the shadow you cast will be that of a titan, your steps large and thunderous, a strange attractor in a dynamic system, that churns a lovely foaming wake.
Also key is adaptability - in this nutritional 69ing we cannot allow ourselves to rest too deeply in a milky solipsism that dulls our synapses, nerves and reflexes.
The ideal state is kinetic.. and it is the only one in which we actually exist. If you were to freeze frame your last 5 minutes of being you'd stretch through space like a millipede through all the places you've been in minute portions of a second.
If our true state is one of motion, success lies in efficiancy, first in locating your true will, whatever goals that fuel your engine and fundementally drive you .. once identified the rest is trimming the fat achieving optimum momentum - no motion wasted, no action unnecessary.
Once all this is in place, no diversion can ultimately overcome you, because you absorb its energy for your own purposes.
Mastering drive will make you stand like a normal man, not in terms of regular, but in terms of fully functioning. But the shadow you cast will be that of a titan, your steps large and thunderous, a strange attractor in a dynamic system, that churns a lovely foaming wake.
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I'm not sure what I wanna do with my life, re: goals. I'd like to say I want to help people and could be a great philanthropist, but it seems to me that often people who need help are scary and don't know how to take help honorably and politely (which I guess sounds stuck up, but I don't mean it like that... and I'm not just talking about "the poor," but all who need some type or help).
So I could just be selfish and concentrate on making myself happy/ fulfilled, but I'm not sure what would do that- I generally try to just enjoy as much as the arts, and "nice things," as I can. I don't really have other goals. I do appreciate the need to set goals to feel fulfilled.
There's a playwright in Crisp's docu, Resident Alien, Robert Patrick, who says people have to define success, and says, "When I was young, I wanted to be in the arts and live in New York... and I've done that. I have succeeded." I think of that often- how great to have set something vague but to have certainly attained it!