If you walk the "standard" path in life, it's really not that tough. If you wanna go into debt, go to college, and get some job you hate. Do everything by the book. In America and elsewhere in the "first world," the creature comforts will generally find you, and you won't have to be too stressed about the beast coming to get you. After all, you're playing by all the rules. You've got the approved of job, the approved of mindset, and the approved of lifestyle.
Become unhappy. Incomplacent. AND THEN YOU'RE FUCKED. And ALIVE.
Now you are aware that the beast is breathing down your neck always, and the freer and happier you are, the more not only it--but the culture at large--begins to resent you. Even "friends" talk behind you back about your "extreme" lifestyle and "weird" views on things. Most of your acquaintances really wouldn't mind if you got into severe trouble, pain, and anguish for living by these views and following your happiness.
Get ready.
When you wanna live true to yourself, it's that age old cliché: You'll be in the world but not of it.
Folks that don't hold these views don't really realize the full extent of the crushing anxiety and fear that comes with knowledge and awareness.
The only thing that makes it worth it? They don't know the joy and rush, either, of actually living while one is alive.
That's #anarchy.
~GS
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