"Get busy living... or get busy dyin'." - Shawshank Redemption
Would you believe that I have not watched the Shawshank Redemption
recently? I haven't. It's true. I just stumbled on some TVTropes
articles that linked back to Shawshank's article and found that the
story seemed to resonate.
But, back to the quote. I've mentioned previously, that whatever we
do with our every day, that is what we have chosen to die for. What you
do, is who you choose to be. Who you think of yourself as in your head
means nothing, what you put done in the pages of life by your actions is
who you are. And most of us are not writing stories that we would want
to read, to say nothing of anyone else.
And, yes, the Hungry Empire wouldn't function if we all lived that
way and nobody waited tables and worked in factories and stocked
shelves. And yes, civilization wouldn't function is nobody sold crap and
swept up and manned the assembly lines. And I know that I am writing
this on a computer that wouldn't be feasible without those things. But
are those things worth living a life you would not choose to relive if
given the chance?
Seriously, this is a question you must ask yourself. Is this life,
the one you caffinate and medicate your way through, worth the price you
pay to get it? Are these toys and technologies worth the price you pay
in the life that you keep deferring?
So yes, you need to get busy living. And you need to examine the life
you are in fact choosing to live. Because every life you choose, causes
all possible other lives you might have lived to die. You only get to
choose one life (assuming the Buddhists and the Hindus aren't on to
something), so choose one that you can look back and say- yes, that was
worth dying to achieve.
Otherwise, you aren't busy living. You are busy dying for somebody else's life.
And hey...
Life is Short.
Work is Crap.
Join my Cult.
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