"If there are ghosts then that means we survive death". Stanley Kubrick asked Stephen King in the middle of the night. That´s what filming "The Shining" can do to you. What followed was Mr King´s response of how hell fitted into that picture to what Mr Kubrick replied "I don´t believe in hell".
Which brings up another question: The question of Inconsistency and how much of it is acceptable. We all know there´s no such thing as slightly pregnant but what about wanting to do good things for the planet and throwing trash on the streets at the same time, or liking dogs some days of the week. How about healthy living except for doughnuts (in my case Haagen Dazs)? As humans it seems as though we crave inconsistency, we enjoy going halves (this DOES NOT apply for dating) and the fifty-fifty rules of the universe. Why is this? Why are we constantly battling a mass of rules set by society that encourage an all or nothing way of life? Is it a matter of character? Why do these rules exist in the first place, where has all this come from? Pardon my inquisitive randomness, Im a bit of a control-freak when it comes to things that I cant find an answer to...
Doesn´t infidelity qualify as a halfsy? We commit to someone yet we cant commit to someone... Its like going to the gym and sitting in the locker room! Or (and this may offend some) going to work at an office and checking your facebook page all day instead of doing what you're being paid to do. It seems as though the more obliged we are towards something or someone, the further away we want to run. We are all natural born rebels. Its not that we can´t engage, we just refuse to do so. Wild guess is the way nature has us programmed and for what its worth, its great to be able to blame nature for falling off the latest low carb diet!
{My mentor Barbara Sher was very amusing when when referring to this subject on one of her lectures on the secret to success and laid emphasis on our gene pool and what nature has in store for us... "The best thing to do is don´t be consistent, it´s like -keep a moving target-take vitamins and then don´t, jog and then don´t, stuff yourself and then don´t. The odds are in your favor if you're not too consistent...}
Which brings up another question: The question of Inconsistency and how much of it is acceptable. We all know there´s no such thing as slightly pregnant but what about wanting to do good things for the planet and throwing trash on the streets at the same time, or liking dogs some days of the week. How about healthy living except for doughnuts (in my case Haagen Dazs)? As humans it seems as though we crave inconsistency, we enjoy going halves (this DOES NOT apply for dating) and the fifty-fifty rules of the universe. Why is this? Why are we constantly battling a mass of rules set by society that encourage an all or nothing way of life? Is it a matter of character? Why do these rules exist in the first place, where has all this come from? Pardon my inquisitive randomness, Im a bit of a control-freak when it comes to things that I cant find an answer to...
Doesn´t infidelity qualify as a halfsy? We commit to someone yet we cant commit to someone... Its like going to the gym and sitting in the locker room! Or (and this may offend some) going to work at an office and checking your facebook page all day instead of doing what you're being paid to do. It seems as though the more obliged we are towards something or someone, the further away we want to run. We are all natural born rebels. Its not that we can´t engage, we just refuse to do so. Wild guess is the way nature has us programmed and for what its worth, its great to be able to blame nature for falling off the latest low carb diet!
{My mentor Barbara Sher was very amusing when when referring to this subject on one of her lectures on the secret to success and laid emphasis on our gene pool and what nature has in store for us... "The best thing to do is don´t be consistent, it´s like -keep a moving target-take vitamins and then don´t, jog and then don´t, stuff yourself and then don´t. The odds are in your favor if you're not too consistent...}
How can you not love this woman!! Think about it, it´s absolutely true, we can´t control anything, that´s all an illusion right? And Im more and more convinced that we cannot fight our nature, the same way other species can´t. We can do things the best way possible, with our limitations of course. This is such a relief, its not my fault I cant be perfect. Don´t you feel better already?! And people calling me incongruent, how dare they! I always knew there had to be something else...
And the most pleasing part of of all this is the fact that inconsistency if actually quite fun. You can break paradigms, make up new rules, in fact you can go all psycho and that´s ok, Mother Nature intended it this way! Can you imagine a world where people were constantly changing their minds, going from white to black and back in a heart beat? Guess what? That is the world we live in, only that the faithful to their inconsistency have been outcasted or committed, but it´s the way we are meant to live...
Isn´t it a liberating thought to be able to think one way and change your mind the next, without being judged or criticized? The rules of the game are changing every single second, new diets, new business models, new ways to communicate, and quite avant garde approaches to relationships. So who is to say what is right and what is wrong? And who cares? It will again change tomorrow when a new idea is presented to us. And who invented the hard structure of Consistency anyway?!
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