The Peregrinus Triple
A summary of what I believe about life and meaning.
Life has no inherent meaning. There’s nothing out there. No one is crafting a grand narrative.
But you can create meaning in your life.
If anyone can tell you what your life is for, they can tell you how you should live it. When you refuse, they will tell you that you are useless.
So, embrace uselessness.
The only thing that survives you is the daily effect of your kindness and cruelty, rippling out throughout the entire human story all the way to its end. A small act affects everyone you meet, everyone they meet, forever, like the wind from a butterfly’s wing.
So, normalize decency.
Every time you learn something new, it is your responsibility to examine its truth, and the motivations of those who put it into the world. The great task is to take responsibility for the contents of your mind; to constantly examine why you believe what you believe.
So, own your head.
Embrace uselessness.
Normalize decency.
Own your head.
..."So, embrace uselessness..." YES, agreed, Kit. Own your personal power and make choices that cannot recast you as a "tool" for any part of the system, for the system to use you, or diminish you.
Don't buy into the system's determination of you being useless because you don't conform. Everyone possesses a skill, and the best ones are not mimicking the system's demands. It's all a buIIshyte narrative, to demean all the people they can.
I feel the need to improve myself, help others, take care of the (and my) environment, leave a small footprint, and hopefully leave things a little better on my way out. I don't think we've figured out why there is all of this when there just as well could be nothing, and why there's this force of life and evolution. How we could go from lumps of mass and chemicals to the diversity we have today seems to beg for an answer.