The Tyde

Being I wake quite early in the AM these days, taking the advice of someone who I met many years ago, Sarano Kelly, I find time like this to write. Sarano explains that once your eyes open, whatever time this may be, even 3 hours before your alarm clock goes off, you should jump out of bed like a lion*, not a sheep, scared to meet the day, don't lay or sit in it for 2 hours before your scheduled time to wake. The practice of laying in bed, after having woken, is detrimental to the rest of your day.

Consequentially, you will find yourself yawning, tired, groggy, unalert throughout the day. Believe me when I tell you, I fought the truth of this lesson for quite a while before finally realization that it is damn fucking true has set in.

I'm not sure exactly what the cause of what I'm about to say is, perhaps I wasted so many years fucking around in life, but I now am a no nonsense type soul. Could look at you stone faced after you tell your funniest joke. Could tell you something no one has ever had the nerve to say to your face, nonchalantly and flagrantly, as if I do this all the time, because I do. I'll challenge you to do something about what I just said, and will make you realize, you're stuck. Try arguing with someone who is not afraid of the police, of physical violence, of brutal retribution for actions I commit. Fuck it, let me tell you, I don't fear death anymore. I have been ready to die since I woke from my life slumber some months ago.

I tell people that it is better to live one day truly alive, doing whatever the fuck you want, regardless of societal norms, the law, whatever you've been told or led to think is "normal". Break free from that oppressive shit and live. Again, better to live one day than it is to not be truly alive for 100 years.

I consider myself one of the luckiest people alive today. This is because I have now had a few months of this "living" and unless someone puts a bullet in my head anytime soon, I plan on accelerating this and enjoying the fruits of it for quite some time to come.