#97

Thought I was starting the new year off strong, but in truth was merely ending a shit year well. "Merely" might be a bit too rough; it's best to finish a lost race with your eyes up. Just that I may have been aggressively prescriptive and excessively optimistic thereby regarding prospects for a shining new life. Disagreeable. 

*

If all your life adds up to mundanity and mistake so that all you can do is hold one door, stand on one line, say one correct thing, that's okay, but you gotta see it through. That's the tough part. 

Another tough part is holding to what you know is right when no one would blame you for doing what only seems right. 

*

You can't unknow your knowledge, and pretending that you can is a sin. I don't call a lot of things sins. Not a dogmatist by any means. I say fuck the Pope, rock premarital homosexual intercourse, listen to death metal and rap music real loud, throw up the horns and stick your pierced tongue out, do what you have to do in order to survive and thrive. God will look after you, and bring you home when you're ready.

But acting like you don't know what you do know absolutely is a sin. 


--JL