If there ever had to be somebody in charge, I'd vote for me.  Flawed, fucked up, drunk most of the time - I fit right in.

    There is a really glaring hole in the middle of this thing and that's whether or not I believe in anything anyone tells me to... having spent more than a few nights behind the fence it behooves me to tell you the truth.

    You can't even dream it up if you wanted to...    

I am painfully aware.  Every day, I wake up and think "why me?"  I guess a better question would be "why not?"

    If I am who I think I am, and this is not just some kind of delusion, we haven't even begun.

Acceptance and Change

 I'd like to start off saying, deep down into my beliefs, that this hellfire that engulfed LA is indeed a national tragedy.  I'm not going to say word one about politics and foresight because that's not what this is about.  For those of you waiting for the but - there is no but.  Los Angeles, the City of Angels, is now a burnt ember in an already too familiar storyline.  We cannot control the things we have no control over.  

    I would like to impart this message though - take stock of what you already have.  There is no more expansionism to be wrought; you will live and die with the same old shit you have already acquired.  God gave us dominion over the Earth?  Tell that to the other 7.999 billion other people who live here.  You are entitled to less-than-nothing.  Yearning for power is like a bunch of monkeys trying to grab ass up the same fucking tree.

    It's 2025, the new age, that dawn of awakening we've been seeking throughout the centuries...  and what are you doing with it?  Sit yourself aside and ask, "Why am I doing this?"  Surely not for them or she or he or it or I...

    Humanity's mind is plagued with conflict.  In an effort to love, we sacrifice it;  in an effort to be forgiven, we curse ourselves.  What in the hell?  I mean seriously WTF?

    Don't ring the bells.  Don't send thoughts and prayers anymore.  It's over, it's done...  you have two TWO choices right now:  ACCEPTENCE and CHANGE.  You can simply hold on to the stasis of what has been, cling to it with an irrationality that knows no bounds, find yourself furiously grasping at it without really knowing why, or...  find and forge a new path:  BE empathetic, BE compassionate, encapsulate those finer things in life that do indeed separate man from his animal nature.  BE A HUMAN BEING.  And if that's not enough?  BE LESS OF AN ASSHOLE!

    We all are going to one day meet our Cosmic Mirror.  It will be every thought you have had, every action you have ever taken,  every single thought pattern of the good or bad variety... If you're lucky you might even remember it.  If you don't?  It stands to reason that the whole thing starts over again, and guess who's in the lucky seat?  YOU.