February 2012
8 posts
“As a white person, I’ve found it best to take all of the time and energy that I once put into trying to figure out what other white people like and why and instead put into actually liking things that I like.”
—noz
Between the greenhouse gases and earth spinnin’ off its axis
Got mother nature doin’ back flips
The natural disasters, it’s like 80 degrees in Alaska
You in trouble if you not an Onassis
It ain’t hard to tell that the conditions is drastic
Just turn on the telly, check for the news flashin’
How you want it bagged, paper or plastic?
Lost in translation, or just lost in traffic?
Yo I don’t wanna floss, I done lost my passion
And I ain’t trying to climb, yo I lost my traction
They makin’ me break, my contents under pressure
Do not shake, I’m workin’ while the boss relaxin’
Here come mister taxman, he leavin’ a fraction, give me back some
Matter fact, next pay check it’s like that son
I’ll fuck around and have to hurt a few men
They’ll probably chalk it up as a disturbing new trend
Black Thought, “Rising Down”
http://eoporto.tumblr.com/post/17213745749/on-self-awareness →
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Sometimes, I feel like I’m always working so hard to be this person I want to be that I forget who I already am. Sometimes I worry I come across more [insert trait here] than I want to be. Sometimes I worry that I’ll never stop wanting to be a better person. Sometimes I worry I’ll become the worst version of myself. Sometimes I worry I will allow society to force me into a niche, to be become a tiny version of myself to fit into some ideal. Worst of all, I worry that I’ll force myself into a niche - plucking away all the parts that don’t fit neatly together so that I feel more ideal.
This sounds exhausting.
I had more to say about this, but the more I wrote the more full of shit I sounded. So I will just say - this sounds exhausting, and maybe a book on Tao or Zen would help a bit.
Daylight is an ugly time of day. So many people are awake, and if I go outside, I know what they’re all thinking. They are mainly doing bad things. White-collar criminals fucking up the world. Phooey on them.
Nighttime is better. It’s not just that it’s quieter, but I can feel the absence of daytime bullshit. People have stopped scurrying. (I don’t mind them scurrying when I’m asleep during the day — I’ll find out what they were up to when I wake up and watch the six o’clock news.)
Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book. All emphasis in the original.
