The Based Life

Improvement is a continuous process of two step forwards and one step backwards ~ Epictetus I hate this is the case. You decide to go off in one direction, to climb a specific mountain lets say, you learn the skills to climb it, its difficult, its tiring, its exhausting, you want to turn back, but you're convinced that the journey after reaching the top will make it worth. To your horor, you get to where you wanted to go only to realise you have hit a dead end!  You realise with the what you know, the skills you've acquired, you cannot traverse forward, either because you cannot see the path forward or you never acquired the skills to traverse the dead end. Perhaps then what we need to do is go back, retrace our steps, see if we missed something. Did we overlook a skill we though was useless? did we avoid learning something because it was too difficult and instead chose the skill that came easier to us?  I think that is understandable, I don't think there is any shame in th...

??? I speak to all those who wish to change the world! ??? You want to change the world you say?  ??? I ask you! Can you even change yourself?  ??? Yes! The world is full of demons!  ??? But do you have courage to look at the demons living within you?  ??? Improve yourself first, show me you can do that.  ??? Improve the people in your immediate surroundings people are fucking difficult, can you do it?  ???  Improve your local community this is starting to involve a lot of people it won't be easy...  do you have what it takes?  might as well try ??? Can you improve the region you live in?  show me you can.  ??? ... ??? Have you made it this far?  ???  Improve your country.  impossible. Do it.  ???  ... ??? ... ??? If you have made it this far, least to say I am impressed beyond belief.  I believe you! I believe you now!!  Not that that was ever important.  Go forth you Improver of the World!...

The World is Ending! The World is Ending!  All that we know is coming to end, what lay ahead? I do not know! All is flux, entropy; the inherent instability of the universe brings to a close what we once knew and forces us into that which we do not!  Where to start!? I do not know! Everything is in change! I am in change! Ought the world not change as well? Nothing is permanent, all that is born; dies; all that grows; becomes ripe, is eaten or rots, returning back to the primordial cycle of all that is!  Are we all going to die from a Climate Crisis which will wipe us all out? Can we maintain a style of life which will not exterminate all living things which exist?  I do not know!  Everything is shifting, everything is changing, the soil we thought was so firm, trembles under our feet, an earthquake is shattering everything we built upon! We live at the end of times, we live at the dawn of a new beginning!  Will technology make my work obsolete? Is everythin...