A New Way of Living

Today is the first day of my new life. It sounds dramatic, I know, but I spent my old life avoiding drama at all costs. So, let’s double down on the drama: everything I thought I knew was just guessing. My modus operandi of working to understand why was just a lousy flavor of institutional schoolthink: you know, that bullshit that gets drilled into brains as soon as they make their appearance in the world, because every brain in the vicinity has been filled with it. Institutional schoolthink proclaims that’s there’s always one right answer, but like everything else that comes from the elites’ social engineering playbook, that’s a lie.

There is a book (but, for the life of me, I can’t remember what it is) that begins with a line about a woman starting each day by believing three untrue things or some such. Is it a kids’ book? A poem? Who knows? Was it satire, silliness, or wisdom? It doesn’t matter; what does matter is the being open to learning something new. For most of my life, I thought I was, but it turns out that I was wrong. If I were always circumscribing what I would explore with this rule and that boundary and the other “truth,” was I really being open? If I was more concerned with information coming from a “trusted” source and displaying some stamp of approval, was I really being open? Nope, not even close.

So, everything changes, here and now—because you’ve got to start somewhere, right?