Life: No False Experience

Today I write with Sufjan Stevens, and his song "The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts" off of his album, "Chicago".

Do you trust yourself? 

We are all guilty of self doubt from time to time. Many times we find that our instincts were right all along and that we could have saved alot of trouble for ourselves and others if we had just followed them. This lesson learned about ourselves is sometimes forgotten and days, weeks, and months later we can find ourselves in the same troubled place. 

And then... we have to relearn it.... which is always a mess!

Its important to follow your instincts but also to question. The difference between self doubt and questioning life lessons from your past is that one is motivated by insecurity and a lack of confidence and the other, by curiousity, and a will to grow. 

We all learned when we were young that everyone is a person. It was the moral of many stories. At the end of the day the good guys show us this lesson as plain as day, and occassionally even the bad guys humanize themself for a single chapter in the story. 

But the truth of the matter applies not just to the good guys as many of us were taught as children, but to everyone. Everyone... no exceptions. Every last pretty girl. Every last bum,  jerk, fool and psychotic,  along with any other labels you can assign a human being. 

We react daily with these labels instead of the people inside. We forget the lesson learned. Sure it was learned in idealism, but does that make it less valid? There is a growing misconception that idealsim is a synonym for falsehood and we as individuals can put a stop to it. In the end it is very difficult to be the sort of people we imagine we are capable of. The sort of person who is protagonist of our personal stories and fantasies. 

It sure would be nice to live in a world where people are just like they dream themselves to be. There would be no villians.  Its harder to be the hero!The lover! The adventurer! 

Its harder to be the idealist...The next time you find youself saying 

"It sure would be nice but-"   stop yourself before the "but"

Because , it sure would be nice.

Thanks for reading.