My Advice: Avoid Your Own Reality
Happiness. What is
it? Anyone who will stand up right now
and declare, “Well, I’m happy.” I say,
“Sit down. You are irritating.” It may be possible, to be happy, that
is. I won’t deny that possibility. I also don’t deny the possibility that there is a God. Some people, by required doctrine, connect
the two.
When I began this piece of writing I was in a rather cynical
place … mentally. At this given time,
that is not quite the case.
It’s been a couple of days … my Artwork has taken a good
skip forward. Developed some new
techniques, invented some stuff. But, I
still keep getting derailed by the TV.
I’ve been avoiding reality by living in the other world of passive entertainment. Identifying with characters, plot lines and
theme parks of the acting world. Pathetic really. …
What I am saying here is that to really avoid your own reality,
it’s fairly easy to embed yourself in somebody
else’s reality. These days, as a
matter of fact, it’s too easy. Just find
something on Netflix, or whatever, and binge
out. I am intimating you would find
something of interest to you – for me, for a while, it was documentaries on the
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. Why, the
Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, I don’t know.
Truly, I do not know why the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. ???
But, it did keep my brain off of all the issues that
had been banging around, like ball
bearings in a tile box. All the weird
shit those guys were into like 4000 years ago, really helped my depression find
a turn-around. It was a completely different world for those guys. My impression is that they, Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs., were able to live in a different
reality than they were actually living in at the time. Common sense, obvious empirical evidence,
simple …… naahhh, that can’t be right. But, in that reality, they invented from whole cloth, seemed to kind of work and
they got all kinds of stuff done.
((Credit where it’s due, really.))
It is possible to apply the reality of contemporary sit-coms,
rom-coms, sci-fi coms etc. to your
own. Sometimes I do do that. I find actors I think are really interesting
or funny or are just really good at acting and have the ability to really pull a viewer into their role and
plot. I recommend not too much of that
though, because fictional reality is
sort of another layer of non-reality laid on top of non-reality reality. And, the twist
of somebody who isn’t really somebody
else, pretending (acting) to be
somebody that they are not, in a world, or situation, that is totally pretend, is tricky to turn off and get back to what is actual. And that, can often throw me back into a bad
depressive cycle.
Mostly from the intrusive news services, we know that a lot,
if not most, of the actors who become big
shots and all that Paparazzi fodder, tend to be just the same nutcases that
the rest of us are. They just get a lot
more attention and since they seem to have a lot of money, they can buy
pretty much any alternate reality they want.
And, their decisions have made it obvious money isn’t the
answer. Or, at least, money cannot buy the answer, and often, with enough
money, a person can destroy their own
reality. Bad decisions can, occasionally, be corrected. But, enough
bad decisions, one after the other without a break in the sequence, can really
fuck things up.
So this leaves us with, maybe, one conclusion; i.e.
“avoiding your own reality by altering
that reality in reality, is not the real solution.” And yet, “avoiding your own reality by adopting, in a course of study, an actual reality, can temporarily allow for some form of alleviation from the stress
caused by your own empirical reality.”
If not that, then altering the perception
of your own reality by accepting that artistic interpretation of a different, and fictional, reality can be acceptable. If the moment of that acceptance remains in
full contact with the knowledge that it
is in fact not reality.
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