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| The Holstee Manifesto |
My first instinct is to love words like these, take them into my heart and embrace them like the sweet little warm-n-fuzzies they are.
But then the saccharine hits the back of my throat and I'm repulsed. This is a trap. This is why people who buy organic food are self righteous jerks. This is look-at-me-I-am-better-than you. This is dogma for the nonbeliever.
"When you eat, appreciate every last bite"
"All emotions are beautiful"
"Open your mind, arms, and heart to new things"
Seriously? who at all could ever live up to this?
"Ask the next person you see what their passion is" indeed. (go on, ask.)
Once upon a time, I cancelled my subscription to Martha Stewart magazine because she never seemed to understand that once in a while the best Good Thing I could ever do in a day was to sit on my ass, drink a beer and celebrate the lack of cat puke on the rug. Living my dream guilt-free because I had been folding fitted sheets before it was cool.
But one thing here is true. Life is short. Very very.
Too short to listen to Dave, Mike & Fabian, whoever they are. Write your own manifesto.
(I'll be editing mine...& re-editing. Like I do.)
(from Brain Pickings, which got me thinking)
One of my pet peeves is the "If you don't like your job, quit" platitude.
ReplyDeleteOnly someone (Kids, tust funders, etc) that doesn't actually NEED to earn a living would ever think that was a good idea.
Right on. This make me remember of when I was a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons. They would air these PSAs of awesome kids who were obviously cooler than you doing incredible things. Things like building robots and running marathons and stuff. It made me feel so inadequate since I was just sitting their rotting my brains on Snorks or whatever. I was 9 years old and entirely a failure.
ReplyDeleteStupid self-righteous over-achievers.
"All emotions are beautiful"
ReplyDeleteSeriously? I've seen a few that aren't.
So Breda, what's your passion?
ReplyDeleteI like these sorts of things to be a surprise but believe me when I say that you'll know it when you see it.
DeleteYou echoed the same reason I canceled my Mother Earth News subscription. I got tired of the preachy feel good garbage.
ReplyDeleteLife is lived on OUR terms, not hers... WE have to make life choices every day, and good enough 'may' be that day of sitting and doing absolutely nothing :-)
ReplyDeleteSo, How do you fold a fitted sheet?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know this too.
Deletehttp://youtu.be/YHTyH2nuFAw
DeleteLife is short. Very very.
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes it is. Not that that's a real profound observation.
I'm sure there's plenty of other blogs on the internet that will satisfy your need for profundity, lee n. field.
DeleteSorry if you took offence. None was intended. The insight weighs more heavily after a certain point in life.
DeleteOk hippies, put down the bong. Everything in life is not peace and love. Ever problem will not be solved by your sitcom platitudes.
ReplyDeleteMy platitudes are way different. But we all have them.
ReplyDeleteManifesto. Humpf.
ReplyDeleteManifestos are written on manual typewriters.
ReplyDeleteIn the blood of dismembered library hobos no doubt...
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