The key to staying ahead of the curve of the human condition is to realize that nobody has anything solid figured out. No religion, ideology, philosophy, or politics has the answer. Especially not yours. It’s all questionable. It’s all precarious. It’s all procrastinating wrongness. Question it all. Entertain a thought without accepting it. Don’t take anything personally. Be curious rather than serious. Keep your bullshit and the bullshit of others in perspective by constantly reminding yourself that nobody (no matter how “enlightened”) and no ideology (no matter how “sacred”) will ever have the answer. Realize that the only “answer” is to question all answers (including this one) ad infinitum. At least this way you’re not taking yourself so seriously that your heart wants to punch its way out of your own body. At least this way you’re not so hung-up on ‘whatever’ that your soul wants to kick your head out of your own ass. Appreciate the difficulty of being a fallible, imperfect, and usually mistaken human being. Take everything with a grain of salt, including the definition of a grain of salt.
Gary Z McGee
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