Ive finally plucked up the balls to pick up a pen and WRITE!
Its not solely through laziness that I havent been writing for the past six months, but also because Ive been (or at any rate thought Id been) preparing myself.
By preparing I mean reading judiciously, and living, or trying to livegiving license to all the passions that arise within me. Ive consigned myself to a strict diet of literature for the past few months. At the moment Im re-reading Crime and Punishment. I read it about 3 years ago, while I was doing the leaving, and, although knowing that it was pretty special, had no where near the appreciation I have for it now. It is almost like reading a different book.
Compared to how I feel and think now, I believe I was an idiot then. Although I havent completed any degree or even a full year for that matter (in either of the colleges Ive attended since), I feel vastly more intelligent, aware, ready, than I did then.
Up until about, say ..2 years ago (about the time I quit my job from pizzeria, I was strictly reading Mao and listening to Jim Morison unplugged constantly) I lived in this kind of dull, semi-conscious torpor.
How I even did things; simple, mundane things like getting on the right bus, shaving, exams, I cant understand. My life hitherto this awakening was a sort of sluggish, unaware, amoeba like existence. The word automaton forcibly springs to mind.
As I reflect on this, I cant help feeling robbed of the first twenty years of my life. Consolingly enough though, some fuckers go through their entire lives in this listless-torpor like existence. The parent of this malady is ROUTINE.
It was only when I wasnt working or at college that I thought about things and started to read in earnest, indeed having the time to read became possible. I would come home from work or college or whatever utterly consumed by whatever meaningless nonsense I had been doing; drained! Id have about as much desire to readnay, think, as the cat would.This routine, which would steal my waking hours, insidiously beat me into a kind of non-existence. These mesh of distractions and useless activities only served as an escape from myself and my true aims. Thus I became commonplace and as dull as horse dung, one of the herd.
Now, if while reading this youre tut-tutting and gently, with a mocking smile, nodding your head, its too late for you my friend, youve been caught .
by somebody
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