July 15, 2007

Like, where's the passion, Dude?

Why is a night in fine with you? What is the meaning of "live life"? As compared to living non-life? In short, what makes you think you're missing something, and what is it that you imagine you're missing? Is this just the result of being propagandized by the world of marketing, telling you you only have one life to live, so live it with all the gusto you can? Usually those ads are directed at people sitting on a couch watching someone else playing the game.

In short, turn off the damned TV; get your nose out of all ad-infested writing (yes, that means magazines and newspapers); and figure out why the kind of life being lived by Lindsey Lohan and Britney is so screwed up. What are they missing.

Alternately, just imagine your dying day 40 years from now. Even better, your last minute. Ask yourself what you want your life to have meant to you in that last 60-seconds of looking back.

It's not a question of getting a life, but of finding your passion. (No, that does not mean emotion or sex!).

Alcuin of Rantland