Here Goes...

Here goes nothing. Here goes everything. Chivalry is out of fashion. Being nice is not the nicest thing anymore. Mirrors are overrated. Faces are overrated. Fear is just a thought, a perspective, an excuse, a refuge. Sleep is not a state of the body, it’s a state of mind. Smiles are overrated, given more credit than due. They’re a subconscious projection of our portrait of ourselves. There is no such thing as a conscious natural smile. The ultimate masks. Blow. It's just powder. Blow in, blow out, blow up. No mail today, maybe tomorrow. Communication is a farce. A lifetime is too short to process even your own thoughts. Communication is inhibitive. Transfer ideas, not words. Hopscotch. Just Scotch. Trip, fall. Trip, rise. Time travel. Time, travel. Don’t time, just travel. Righteousness is subjective. Love is a myth. Popular propaganda. The most addictive, dangerous and most widely used and accepted mind-numbing drug. What I am is what I think I am. I think, therefore I am. Thoughts flow, therefore I flow. Thoughts change, and I change with my thoughts. But thoughts don’t do, therefore I don’t. Born alone, die alone. Live alone. The truth is a lie, there is none. Just ideas that sound good or bad to few or many people. What is success? No such thing exists. It is man made. What is failure if there is no success? No such thing exists. There is only survival. Not of the person. But of ideas. And survival is inevitable. And ideas are immortal.

Think. Question. Read between the lines.

Recently, a friend and I were discussing (to put it mildly) whether colleges should allow a smoking zone on campus so that those in love with the cancer stick could effectively exercise their freedoms while respecting the freedoms of others. Soon she told me I had no chance at convincing anyone "who mattered" to even consider implementing such an idea, because the "only support I could get was from college students, which was not good enough". This was my reply -

"College going students are the minds the system is training to run it in the future. Also, since the very presence of a system implies expected improvement, one implicitly credits said students with superior judgement, intelligence and capacity and sufficient and continuously improving experience to base said capabilities on. Discrediting their opinions reflects poorly on both you and the system. It is akin to calling the system a factory and us its androids. And since it is safe to say that the system has been around for long enough for its products to be running it now, the very presence of a system run by such electronic thought pales into insignificance. Don't listen to what they say. We are being manufactured. Nihilism -> Revolution -> Anarchy. Think. Question. Read between the lines."

To the best of my knowledge, the message is still lost on her. I just love the irony life keeps throwing at me.