Keep Walking

I'd hate to sound like one of those movie junkies who has had 12 cups of coffee in 2 hours and just finished watching the matrix trilogy for the seventh time this month BUT we are being duped. Duped damn it! By this corrupt system called the material world. "Uh oh he's lost it", you're thinking. I haven't. Trust me. I'm just thinking. The kind of thought that is somewhere between Hamlet and the main guy in a Brave New World (i forgot his name).

For 22 years of our lives we are put in institutions that instruct us to think a certain way. To have to understand certain things in order to survive. Without that certificate of proof you are screwed. If you do not get those companies on your CV you are screwed. It's a rat race to just see the world and what it has to offer. Visas and politics and boundaries serve nothing but division. When I was a child I always wanted to explore the new. To find out what else there was. To just see and experience. Why should I or anyone have to be restricted by boundaries? Why do we have to pay to travel? I think it should be mandatory for kids in school to travel all the time, meet people their age from different cultures and backgrounds. Interact. Speak. Fight. Love. It would be like the revolution of the internet where information was unlocked to flow seamlessly around the world - only with people. Bringing people together. The same way Islam does. "Oh no he didn't bring up religion". Okay let me steer another direction. The same way respectable heads of state do (and there are very few who do!).

There should be a class in school called.."whatever the hell you want". I read in an article recently that when kids are allowed to play by themselves (doing their own weird things), their sense of creativity is tapped and as odd as it may appear to us adults it is actually a very strong sign of intelligence. Industry was developed from a single wacky idea that nobody at the time thought would make any sense. I'm sure when Mr. Inventor showed Mrs. Inventor the first 'wheel' he designed she probably laughed in his face..and so did the townsfolk. Fast forward x years and BOOM! The world revolves around it - literally and figuratively.

My point is be yourself. Be free. Have your morals and uphold your principles. Run like Forrest did just because he wanted to. Make a mistake you know is going to be a mistake just so you really know why you initially thought it was a mistake. Live a little. Love a lot. Get your heart broken. Mend it. Become stronger. Get knocked the f**k out. Get right back up again. Keep walking. Never lose faith. If you are naive then be yourself. When you get screwed-over, learn. Never stop learning. If you are an optimist and you get screwed-over understand the pessimist but remain the optimist. Always live with that awesome quote from Coach Carter in mind:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”