"Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to", said the cat
"I don't care where-", said Alice
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go", said the cat
"So long as I get SOMEWHERE", added Alice as an explanation
"Oh you're sure to do that", said the cat " if you only walk long enough".
And oddly enough, I always manage to find my answers in children's Fairy Tales. And maybe the term 'children's' isn't quite correct. And this, what the extract is saying, it stopped being enough for me quite some time ago
Because ending up anywhere isn't necessarily better than being static. And walking forwards doesn't necessarily mean moving on. And maybe we've been asking ourselves the wrong kinds of questions all the while. You've always got much more to lose than you think you do."That depends a good deal on where you want to get to", said the cat
"I don't care where-", said Alice
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go", said the cat
"So long as I get SOMEWHERE", added Alice as an explanation
"Oh you're sure to do that", said the cat " if you only walk long enough".
And oddly enough, I always manage to find my answers in children's Fairy Tales. And maybe the term 'children's' isn't quite correct. And this, what the extract is saying, it stopped being enough for me quite some time ago
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I ask myself where am I going and what do I want. Do both work together or against one another. For the most part I just allow myself to follow wherever I feel the pull. You are right though as going forward doesn't always mean moving on... There comes a point when you have to ask if you are moving for the betterment of your life or to run away from something.
Do you know what makes you happy and what you want to do in life?
What makes me happy is waking up in the morning in the quiet, in my own space. Art makes me happy. Acting and dancing and music and books. And the dream I'm working for is living my life becoming other characters. I want to do good acting ( and be good enough to get there without having to suck some old asshole's cock) and music.
What about you? What keeps you happy? Who do you want to become?
Moving from one place to another in a physical sense is absolutely irrelevant. What really counts is a shift in mindset, an epiphany of sorts, even if it is only in the smallest possible way. Like brushing your teeth a little more often. Unless you live in some sketchy cardboard box under a bridge somewhere in communist China, of course. In that case the physical shift is quite important.
I have epiphanies every thirty minutes. Keeping up with myself is so exhausting that by the end of the day I'm too tired to act out my decisions and plans.
I like to think this is not uncommon amongst people at all.
Of course it's not uncommon. It's the curse of the first world. We receive everything on a silver platter simply by bribing the right person. We're horribly bored, so we turn inwards and rip ourselves to shreds with introspection, discovering new and exciting flaws in ourselves every single day. It's gotten so bad that depression is no longer just a disorder, it's a subculture. Quite intimidating, when you think about it.
What happens when we get bored of looking for flaws? Depression as a subculture? I've never thought about it in that way, but I guess it's very true and in your face, once you know what to look for.
" Our generation has had no great war, no great depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives "
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