a6 in idea barrages

1.) “Iron Age,” the older Hittites clucked their tongues, “what, bronze isn’t good enough for these brats? Goddamn Millenials.”

2.) Why y’all gotta be beautiful/why y’all gotta be too taken or too far away/too young or too responsible/why y’all gotta be beautiful/today.

3.) I always misread “adulting” as “auditing” online and I fear my friend has either gotten mixed up with Scientology or the IRS. OR BOTH.

4.) Dreams keep saying something’s Happening in October. I don’t believe in prophecy or magic but still wonder what my subconscious is on about.

5.) Sad Peter Pan/never gonna die, never gonna be a man/what kind of plan/could there be in making your stand between the shifting sands

6.) About all I have left important to me is my performing family & my blood family. This is either bad traditionally or good in a Buddhist way.

7.) If you can’t get over your need for approval, as I never did, at least pick those you go to for approval very well, as I slowly learned to.

8.) Once a palm reader showed up at the door of the office I worked at. “You’re going to be very successful but not for a very long time.”

9.) There’s one trauma one wound in every life when you either say “I’ll never feel this way again” or “no one should ever feel this way again”.

10.) In the kingdom of jesters, the queen keeps around a Captain Bring-Down to entertain her.

11.) You might think your imaginary friends are completely loyal, you may even be right, but still don’t test them with a trust fall.

12.) The Stock Market is as useful an indicator of the nation’s health as would be the going price of snake oil.

13.) I’m glad you enjoy your Colour Runs but I don’t get it myself. You’re forced to exercise and your “reward” is having paint thrown at you?

14.) Strident worldviews on any side doom us all. If you’d rather be ideologically pure than do good in the world, at least admit it.

15.) When the options are 1 step forward or 10 steps back, don’t leave because you can’t get 50 forward today. Preventing regression is progress.

16.) No matter how hard his claws are, pushing them against a metal door, wouldn’t they just rip out the back of Wolverine’s still-flesh hands?

17.) “Oh, they think building Minoan temples on Crete is just so woke,” the older Greeks were heard to mutter, “goddamn Millenials.”

18.) “Peer Not Deeply Into Horror Stories Of Loneliness, The Stories May Peer Back” would be a better Plenty of Fish tagline.

19.) Embrace risk, life will kill you either way but you get to choose whether to die ignorant and fearful or fulfilled and joyful, risk embrace.

20.) Life isn’t about not having fear in the first place, it’s about overcoming the obsolete fear vestigially installed in your heart.

21.) We’re not cave-animals anymore, fear of the different protected us then but it is killing us now, we have to let go of that old programming.

22.) They make you take on needless attachment not out of cruelty but so as to justify their own sublimation of those values, just as with faith.

23.) Everyone’s always trying to break up with social media, it seems. Everyone’s always “It’s not you, it’s memes”.

24.) Every time you’re in a large crowd of people, estimate how many pounds they all will poop that day. Show your math.

25.) Shepard, gather up thyself.