what you can’t live without

If you wouldn’t bother to drag it away from the gates of hell, and sigh at the first sign of adversity.
If anything extra is too much for what you’ve budgeted this would cost

Burn it.
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The movie Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003) contains a striking goth image:
Johnny Depp’s character, stark black outfits and long dark hair, is wearing sunglasses to cover his missing eyes.

Streams of thick dark red blood have dripped from his eye sockets.
Painting both undereye areas a ghastly red.

Yet, he does not give up (his malicious ways).
Even having lost his eyes, he will not be defeated.

Admirable.
However, we must take one thing into consideration:
He only has his work to focus on, whereas we probably also have a house to take care of, and maybe friends, family, circles of people we regularly see, and so on and so forth.

We do not have just one job, we’d lose our eyes for and still keep going.
And that, makes it complicated.

Even in Romeo and Juliet-like tales, where the main characters center their life around romance, ignoring the social code;
The war it causes illustrates this immediately has consequences.

The truth is, it doesn’t really matter what you center your life around;
Career, romance, running, your health, activism or (my suggestion) your creativity;
It always, comes at a cost.

Life has been designed in a way that allows only for shallow, on-the-fly constantly interrupted interactions, that would not even have counted as connection, a few decades ago.

If you want anything of meaning, you’re going to have to create it yourself.

The more junk-interactions you have, particularly online, consuming rather than creating or connecting;
The less value all those interactions have.

And the happier the big tech companies are, to whom you’re feeding your entire consciousness.
Instead of to doing things that matter.

Value is only in the things you’d lose your eyes for.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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