Dear member (yes, I mean you, the reader of this)
I submit the following premise: You life is base on a true story.
I'll start with my meaning of ''story''. It's a narrative that''s made up. There is no such thing as a true story because, by it's very nature, a story is not the actual thing or event. It's about the thing or event. Anything about something must be to at least a degree, made up. Minimally one degree removed. It's all fiction and non-fiction is non-existent.
“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved
You, dear member, spend far more time in your head going over your stories, rehashing interpretations, analysis (usually about what he/she meant when he/she said, ''blah blah'', drawing up old memories (a truly fictional bases for further stories) and just generally not being present to what is, i.e. your are living inside a story. What's even stranger is, it's not your story. Contemplate that one.
Perhaps as a child you can remember a parent reading you a bedtime story. Some of those are pretty demented. However, after reading it your parent may have said something like, ''Don't worry, there really is no such thing as a big bad wolf, it's just a story dear, now off to sleep with you.''. That usually takes most of the sting out of your bedtime trauma. Snooze time.
So, Jed plays your parent (I'm probably old enough) and I am telling you that.... it's just a story! What you are living in, the world you spend most of your time in, is JUST A STORY!
Now, you won't be impacted much by a story unless you believe it to be true because you ignore what you think is untrue. Certainly varying degrees of belief in stories exist, but any degree of belief in them is insanity. That's correct, you are insane and the first step is to admit that believing hallucinations are real, intangibles actually exist and you know what's really going on (that's a real laugh) is a comprehensive definition of insanity. I like the follow quotes:
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin
In the land of the insane, one who is beginning to experience sanity will inevitably feel lonely, quite apart from the mad(ening) crowd. Don't be concerned if you experience this, it's a very good indicator, regardless of the push back from friends and relatives (forgive them, they don't have a clue). Just understand that they must defend their mental constructs, their prisons, beliefs, memories and thoughts, otherwise they too might go sane. They don't know they are doing this because they are all in a deep trance.
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
― Nikola Tesla
I have specifically written this Rant for one member, YOU, and you know who you are. Well, maybe you don't yet, but you will.
Love ya, Jed.
P.S. Remember, thinking is the disease, not the cure, and thinking about thinking will not stop thinking, only add to it. Now it's you turn... what do you do about it?