The Hero Dies in This One

The hardest part isn't finding what we need to be, it's being content with who we are.

                                                             Stay who you are. 

Maybe The Ataris had it wrong though.  Maybe the hardest part isn't being content with who we are, but being content with who we eventually find out that we actually are.  Sure you can be anyone you want to be, but that's not really you.  You can put on a mask and be anything or anyone but yourself.  The only way to truly be yourself is to take off all the disguises and reveal to everyone, including you, what colors, however drab or bright they may be, that have been hidden for whatever reason.

It could take a life shock or something as minuscule as a passing glance on the street to get someone to realize that they have been hiding behind so many walls and layers of lie that they start to feel everything come crashing down on them.  Either way, being who you are, and being content with that person and all their flaws and faults, is the largest battle that everyone faces in life.  Maybe it's because society looks down on, and has looked down on, being your own person.  It could be that civilization thinks that everyone should be civilized and refined, not crude and habitualized.  I would say barbaric here but all barbarism seems to be is a group of habits that people develop that has been looked down upon by the "upper" civilized people.

Sure expelling gases and picking at bodily fluids and secretions are not the "ideal" way to live and maybe these actions can cause illness if mixed in the wrong combination or order, but were is the fun in being prim and proper all the time.  People need to let loose some times.  Get rowdy.  Belch and fart.  Pick your nose.  The only people that say we're not supposed to do that stuff is ourselves.  If we're supposed to be who we are, why do we hate on other people for being who they are?  Why to we discriminate between people of different religions?  What's the point of making fun of someone who does something different than us?  Sure we're used to doing things our way, but not everyone's living our life.

Some people just need to realize and accept the differences in people.  If everyone could accept difference, there would be no war or hate at all, ever.  Sure it's idealistic.  Sure it's probably never going to happen.  But is that any different than asking people to conform to "civilized" life or "higher society" and clean up their act?  Hate it or love it, it's the way I see it.  You don't have to agree with my views, so I don't want to hear criticism of what I believe.  That would only confirm the title of this post.  But I do want to know what you think.  Let me know how you feel however you feel fit.  Comment, phone call, text message, e-mail, Facebook message, whatever.

All that from a line from a song.  And a Punk song at that.

Till next time, get lots of rest and drink plenty of fluids.