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METAMORPHIC MANIFESTO

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Why bother? Why try? What is the point? We are born. We live and then we die. What is the meaning to all this trying and crying and dying? We don’t seem to make any progress? People are at each other’s throats and for what? A bigger piece of the pie, more toys, more, more, more? What if, we were able to find peace with what is? Just this, not that, or that, but just this? No tribes, no borders, no political parties, no religions, no hierarchies. There would be no inequality. No birth rites everyone would start from the starting point. What is – is that we are not born equal. Some are born on third base and they think they hit a triple. What does self-made mean? Does anyone really come from nothing and climb the heights that do not turn around and help others up? Yes. But that is the exception, not the rule. Greed and hatred are commonplace in the world today. They have always been there – in plain sight and behind closed doors. Economies are constructed to reward tho...

NO ONE IS COMING TO RESCUE YOU!

Let’s be clear about that! Seek your own council - Be your own hero, savior, knight in shining armor. Change begins within. Like the proverbial light bulb, you have to want to change. You could want to for all the right reasons. You don’t feel well, lose weight, your second wife left you for the third time, what have you. Change is good. It clears out the cobwebs. Novelty, or new stuff, is instructive. It attracts new interest. It inspires inquisitiveness. It makes the gray matter in your brain to wake up and take notice.  If anything it could prevent boredom. The Status quo is static and quite frankly - the same old same old - is death. Try something new even if it is wrong.  You don’t have to wait until you have everything you think you need or have to go out and buy all the gear and the best new bike to start riding a bike. Hell, go buy one at a yard sale, get your fat ass on the seat and ride. Seriously, when I see someone riding a bike, I can usually tell...