You Are Not Who You Think You Are.

  So often, we want to identify ourselves with a certain aspect of the world. Or, of life in general. We want to feel like we belong, like we are important to something. We want to BE things, we want people to KNOW we are those things. That, is where so many of us go wrong. We want to identify with things we think will make us feel whole. All the while, it is imprisoning us even further. We strive to become something when, in reality, we are everything we need to be. At this very exact moment in time, you have the tools you need to succeed in anything you choose. But, do not identify yourself as those things. Do not let the things you do, define who or what you are.

  I myself, do not identify myself as anything. I am not a man, nor am I a woman. I am not a human, nor am I an alien. I am neither alive, nor dead. I just am. I am here, in this moment as a sentient being of a planet, so vast and so versatile, that I can do anything I choose to do. We simplify the world so much, that our technological advances will be our downfall. Sure, it's nice to pick up a computer or a phone and talk to people globally. I mean, millions of years ago, the only people you thought existed were those who you were raised with. But now, we have access to BILLIONS of others. We have the power, to go anywhere and do anything. We have cars, planes, helicopters, boats and trains. You name it, we can travel on or in it. Yet, we shut ourselves down. We shut out the world, and destroy our means of survival.

  Many people, think the President is a higher power because of him being in a position of power. The same goes for law enforcement and others of a "higher ranking". Those, are all social marks we put on the people who have done things with their lives. Is it good, to be in a position of power? Yes, in some aspects. But, it is when you let yourself become that power and that power define you that you have a problem. Do not, think for a moment that you are better than I or anyone else just because you have a "higher" social ranking. It goes back to high school. Or ever further back, to adolescence. Even your birth day. When we are born, we are automatically imprisoned into this world. We are given a number, that defines our every waking moment. Our whole being is categorized by a number.

  Furthermore, when we grow older and are able to start moving around. We are told "no" the infamous word heard world wide. You ask something, "no" you are told. You want something, "no" you are told. You are told you are a bad child, when you throw a tantrum. You are told it is WRONG to express your emotions. Another prison. The inability to express your true feelings. So you grow older, and you begin using the word NO. Many parents, and non parents alike, know that world. A child says it all the time. It is what they are taught from day 1. But, they are punished for it. Scolded and put in a "time out" because of using it. But, the parents and adults alike still tell the child "no". "I'm hungry mommy/daddy". The response? "No, you just ate 2 hours ago you'll be fine".

  You are told, what you like. Why you like. Who you like. What to wear. When to eat. What to eat. What to do. What to say. How to say. How to act. You don't run your life as a child. And this progresses into school. You are told all those things and more. You eat at certain times. You can only play at certain times. You are told how you must dress in "public". You are told when and how to talk. You SIT there all day, 8 hours, in a classroom. Learning things out of a book, that others tell you is the "right thing". And this progresses into middle school.

  The rules get stricter. The world buckles down on you. It has to right? Or else, you'd be completely out of control. Am I right? Or, is this just a teaching we use to further imprison people? The older we get, the longer we sit. In school, we lose the ability to go outside. So we are stuck, sitting all day. We grow older. and reach high school. And, this trend progresses. We are told, you must dress proper. To act proper. To talk properly and sit more. Sit, sit, sit and more sitting. We are told to get a job, A job, where most of us sit. Or we slave away at something that makes us unhappy. We are told this is our JOB, our PLACE to do these things. Only because if we fail to do so, we are labeled as "not fit" for society.

  Now, am I saying that having a job is bad? By no means am I saying that. I, also, am not saying that we do not need to WORK. We simply don't need a "job". You must work on yourself, you must work for the world. Not, for a company nor for an organization that does not better YOU. Why slave away years of your limited life, for someone or something that does not make you happy. You make them happy everyday. You make them money, they are living the high life. While you live paycheck to paycheck. Thinking, that is your only means of income. When in reality, your TRUE income is how you pay yourself. How you pay your body. How you choose to pay your soul, you are entitled to whatever you want for your mind. You have a plethora of information, information not seen for millions of years by so many, with the internet now you can make yourself knowledgeable in anything you choose. Why do you choose social media? Why do you choose to do things that make you unhappy? There is a world of things, that can fulfill your wildest ambitions.

  Do not, identify yourself as anything. You are not your job. You are not your music. You are not the way you dress. Nor how you act, how you feel. You are not the title you hold. You are not any better than anyone or anything else. You are simply, you. Free yourself from this fucking prison. Do not be held back, from your true purpose in life. So many years have passed us all by. How old are you? That's how long you've been in a prison. For me, that was 23 years. No more though. Do not worry about hurt feelings. Do not cry over spilled milk. A wolf, does not  concern himself with the opinions of sheep. BE that Lion. Be the leader of your own life. Break out of the prison, that is holding your life back.

  Be your true purpose.

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

A few posts you may like:
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-do-you-identify-yourself.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-wolf-doesnt-concern-himself-with.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/live-in-now.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/feed-negative.html

In case you missed it, or you're new around here:
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

The God Complex

GOD. 

  Mention those three letters, and everyone suddenly knows everything about life. The words, creationism and evolution are heavily debated topics. One side says a higher being of power created all things around us. While, opposite that, the other side says we were all born of stardust. And, god forbid you argue against either of them. Radical Christians and radical evolutionists. The argument is never ending.

  The Bible, The Quran, The Book of Mormon, The Torah, Spiritualism, The Book of Law, Buddhism, the list goes on. You could write a post simply about the "holy books" of history and modern society. Every single day, someone is trying to create a new religion. Remember Scientology? People are always looking for the blanket to keep them safe. The next thing to follow. We all look for that safety net in the end, weather it be God, or weather it be drugs, it could be food. A countless number of things.

  The age old questions always get asked, "who is god?" "what is god?" "where did he or she come from?" The list of questions goes on forever. Why do good things happen to bad people? Why would god allow this? How did his son dying, help erase our sins? What is a sin? Why are sins so bad? Heaven? Hell? What are these? Where are these? You see, an list of questions arises. And still, we follow our faith. Many look towards God, some towards Allah, some Mohammed and so forth. Some worship Buddah, and some worship the trees and the land. I myself, have no preference. I do not follow "religion" I feel religion is a complex, made up to simply give choice to choiceless people.

  Am I denying the existence of a God? No, I believe this universe is all intertwined like this very internet we are on. A complexity of circuits, all working together. Heaven and Hell are merely concepts, of success and failure. You create your own life, your own universe, upon the template given to you by the higher power out there. The idea of god, is merely what you want to make it. Do not let it control you, like so many others. Many people use the idea of God to control their lives with fear. I tell you now, to be fearless. Do not forget your faith. But do not let your faith forget you, do not let your faith control you. One wrong move, and its blasphemy. One wrong word, and you're condemned to a life of eternal hell fire and torture. 

  You see where I am coming from? The mind is a powerful tool, use it for a good purpose and you will make it wherever you want in life. But, fail to use its full potential? You are already condemned to a life full of hell and misery. There is a quote I like, "A coward dies a thousand death, a warrior dies but one". Don't be a coward, because of your belief. Be a warrior for what you believe in. Fight for what you believe, but do not be ignorant. Do not be a mindless drone, arguing what you were taught your whole life. Everything you have ever been told is a lie. It is up to you, to figure out what the lies and the truths are yourself. Go out, and create yourself.

  Day and night, the sun and the moon. Negative and positive. They are all connected to one another. All things exist and all things do not exist, at the same time. What you see, is not always what is real, and what is real is not always what you are seeing. Take for instance, Christmas which is touted as the Christian holiday on which Jesus was born. It actually started out as a Pagan holiday, which was about sacrifice. Easter? A holiday about fertility and sex. You see? What we are taught to believe of reality, is not so real after all.

  If you take anything away from this, anything at all. I would have you take this message away. Do not fall into line behind all the others. Do not do something, simply because it is the socially normal  thing to do. Follow your own path, and fear not the repercussions. Live your life as if it is your last day. And whatever you do, do not fall into the God Complex, created to scare you into line with the rest of the socially inept.

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

A few posts you may like:

http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-do-you-identify-yourself.html

http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-wolf-doesnt-concern-himself-with.html

http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/live-in-now.html

http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/feed-negative.html

In case you missed it, or you're new around here: 

http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.

https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard

The Greatest Deception Of The Modern Era

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"  That seems to be the age old question, asked to kids of all age. The funny thing? Most adults still cannot answer that question, nor can they say they are doing what they intended with their lives. Sad, isn't it?
  You may be one of them, sitting there and thinking to yourself "WHAT do I really want to do with my life?"  I know, because I was at that point in my life not to long ago myself. Depressed, daily, no motivation and no care for the future. I thought to myself, "what is the point? Nothing ever goes right anyways". But, maybe the veil is so far over our eyes that we just cannot see what we need to. We cannot see what life has in store for us, if we just stray from the social norms.
  Oh, you know exactly what I am talking about. It's imprinted upon us from birth. To "follow in the footsteps of the great ones".  At 4 years old we start going to school, we do 15 years of schooling. The next step is college, which is usually 4 years sometimes upwards of almost 10 for some. And all you get is a piece of paper showing you now have $100,000 in debt. Next up, is the job. You have to get one of those, god forbid you enjoy your life. Most of the time it isn't even in the field of work you went to college for. You work for a corporation that can and WILL drop you at the drop of a hat. For seemingly no reason, other than to "cut costs". Then what? No job, wife leaves you and you wind up homeless with nothing in the world except yourself.
  Now, those lucky ones, who keep that job. Go to it everyday, but are they so lucky after all? Back pains, countless ailments and diseases. Poor diets, and lack of motivation. Doughnuts and coffee every morning, just for their pick me up. Some junk for lunch, and a quick dinner scarfed down in front of the T.V. so they can rush to bed and get their 5 average hours of sleep. Don't forget their hectic lives with the kids schedule, that they are always stressed about. Eventually, they reach retirement age. Ah, the golden years have passed. With little to show, hardly seeing their kids grow up because of grueling hours at the office. Wife cheating on them, because they're too tired to pleasure her. And when they do, finally get to that moment, he can't get it up.
  Fast forward, he saved so much for his pension. Finally able to retire. How does he spend his days? Not for fun, or entertainment. Not spent with his wife, he now has a growing ignominy for her. So he sleeps his days away, when he isn't going to countless doctors appointments. All those years of heartburn, and popping pills has given him many medical problems. And, the misses is no different. Living out the rest of their days ignoring each other for the most part, him napping and her never doing anything right to him. Until one day, something tragic happened to one of them.
  Now, say Mr. Smith shall we call him? Mr. Smith, is the first to go. Mrs. Smith lives her life out in sorrow until one of her countless diseases takes her. Now, the kids they birthed fall into the same trap. Living their lives out in quite the same manner. The saddest part? This is the social norm, now days. The timeline for "success" goes a little like this:
-Go to school for 15 years.
-Go to college.
-Get a job.
-Save for retirement.
-Retire.
-Die.
  Sounds pretty damn boring to me. Sounds like the easy way out. The great deception making everyone believe in this fallacy of the "American Dream". A dream evolved over time, into something most people settle for. The American dream, use to be to live a happy healthy life with your family. Spending days working, not only on yourself or your house, but also on your family. So many now days, lose not only themselves but also their families and friends in not the pursuit of happiness, no in the pursuit of money. The pursuit of fame. We have evolved into a selfish self centered race of beings. But, selfishness is not always bad, considering though that most people now days are more selfish than selfless I fear for our future if we keep this pace up.
  I fear, of a future where the man next to you cannot be trusted. Where, family cannot support family. Once trusted individuals, now stab you in the back for litter better than to relish in their own fame and fortune. We sacrifice what we most need, for what we most want. Am I telling you, to give up on your dreams? NO, not exactly, in fact I am telling you the opposite! Follow your dreams! Follow that which is in your heart, and don't ever give up nor give in. But heed this warning, do not give up the things that mean most in your life. Do not give up your heart, for anything. You own that, own yourself and never give your true self up. Always be you.
  If you aren't happy with your life, quit your job. Follow your dreams, follow what is in your heart. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stop falling into the pit of despair and fucking do something about it. If you're happy living out your days like detailed about, fuck you. You are why, this world is how it is. You are how come future generations will peril to the mundane 9-5 lifestyle.
  But, if you want to change. You go and grab life by the balls. You go and change yourself.
Be bigger, be better, be stronger. Never stop evolving. Never give up.

Check out my book, How To Get Everything You Want:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/609912

A few posts you may like:
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-do-you-identify-yourself.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-wolf-doesnt-concern-himself-with.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/live-in-now.html
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2016/01/feed-negative.html

In case you missed it, or you're new around here:
http://coreysperspective.blogspot.com/2015/10/my-introduction-pt-1.html

I'm also selling custom made T-shirts, to which half of the proceeds will go towards testicular and prostate cancer charity.
https://teespring.com/liftwithyourbeard