Lessons For My Future Kid

Your first loss will be your hardest, survive it. Learn when the party has peaked, leave it. Exercise to move well and stand tall. The middle path is generally the correct one. You don’t need an opinion. Laugh at your own misfortunes but have sympathy for everyone else’s. Compliment people, often. Be wary of labels, they invariably lead to cults. Fake kindness is better than real rudeness. Spend your money on buying back time from a world determined on wasting it. Don’t save for best, use it until it wears thin and passes into heirloom. Life is just what we call the bits in between good meals with good people. Keep up with the culture. Play the Devil’s Advocate. Reveal your vulnerabilities. Destruction is easier than creation, this is why all art has value. Run in the dirt, not on the road. Play in the mud, not in the rubber. The obstacle is the thing. Learn a little about a lot. Grasp history, it does repeat. Don’t wish away your days waiting on a perfect future, years will turn to dust. Your happiness should be defined thusly; lack of immediate pain. Life isn’t a movie, score it anyway. Science is very good at telling you how-not-to-die, which is quite different than telling you how to live, that’s why we read philosophy. Madness beats mundanity, except on a Sunday. Invade the lands outside your comfort-zone an inch at a time until you end up with blue hair.

M.G