That one post
In all my blog entries, there is one post that sends chills down my spine every time I read it. Ever so often, that particular entry would remind me of its existence, forcing a moment of reflection and contemplation.
“There’s is no good or bad. In conclusion, there only exists conviction and conception. It is all a matter of belief and mind. Do not be mistaken. There is no absolute.
I dislike people who try their means to coerce others into believing in their ideals. People are entitled to their own world, their own reality. Don’t go spoiling it for them. There is no greater sin on this earth than the act of forcing unto others a conformity.
Nationalism, piety, morals, law.
Controls inserted seemingly at random into society which run a seamless control system serving to protect the top level of society. The people who fear the emergence of radical bodies, people not unlike themselves, who in ages past rose against their predecessors.
People like me.
Poeple who refuse to take in their lies unquestioningly.
This will always form a never ending loop. The future will upsurp the past. That has and will always be an unchanging fact, and so, it is inevitable that the present will fear the potential of the future to remove them from their position of comfort.
They once fought the past, and now, they try to oppress the future.
It is futile.
For in the end, there is only Life and Death.”
Back then, I questioned the need to put on facades, and resolved to throw away the masks that I wear. Two years on, and severely alarmed at the outcome that is in total contradiction of the resolution, I stand in bewilderment of the apparent irony of the current situation.
A little worse for wear, and extremely cautious of offending anyone is the Gavin of this age.
The rediscovery of this entry shall serve as a stark reminder of the frail balance between niceties and being contrived. That for my own sanity there has to be an extent to which I can be nice and room for me to be true to myself.
So in hopes of positive change, this quote shall guide me along:
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr Suess
