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What It All Means…
You know, in life, we kind of start to lose sight of the things that really matter to us. It’s true. That’s why we tend to care more for something when it’s in danger or taken away. We forget what it means to us, why it made us get up in the morning, why we did it in the first place. Why does this happen?
Lately, I’ve had shitloads time to think. I had 3 weeks off from my job and, as you can see from my site and twitter feeds, haven’t been active online all that much. I haven’t made a video in a while either (besides the Nonna Maria Christmas episode). I took all this time to reflect on what the fuck I want to do with my life. I feel like I want to take on everything, which overwhelms the shit out of me, so I just sit around and meditate on it. Well, what did I find during this whole time of reflection? I found that, reflection, while good, can also be bad. In fact, reflecting and thinking too much can be very well detrimental to the life you want to live.
In the times we’re living in, where “thinking positive” is now all the rage. Where books like “The Secret” sell you the idea that if you want to win at life, you just need to sit down and think about winning at life. In this era where we’re all looking for the easy way out, the diet pill or slap chop to make us slimmer, the abridged version of the “Laws of Attraction” that makes us feel okay with spending a whole day playing Uncharted 2 in our underwear on the couch. I mean, sure, I’m playing Uncharted 2 but at least I’m “thinking” about wealth and fame.
While I definitely encourage any positivity, I realized that what all these positive thoughts, goal planning, writing, vision boards, mind movies, hypnotist recordings, meditations, binaural sounds, enhanced music, subliminal sleep sessions, and subliminal music do is really just make you feel okay with being a couch potato. There wasn’t enough action I was taking in my life. I wasn’t doing enough with what I had. My blog was drying up and I hadn’t wrote a new video skit in the longest time. Why? cause they lost their original meaning. That doesn’t mean I’m not ever doing them again, it’s just that I need to reassess why I did them in the first place.
When my blog started to gain popularity, my mindset switched from “hey, I love blogging and writing cool stuff and I hope people like what I write, if not, it’s okay, but if they do it’s so cool” to “whoa, my site’s getting popular, I need to continue blogging so I can keep this traffic up.” <— you see that? My whole meaning for updating this blog switched from just blogging for the sake of blogging to blogging so I can keep the traffic coming. Tell me, how am I supposed to write quality posts when I’m blogging to get more traffic. I might as well open up one of those stupid SPAM blogs if I wanted to do that. No, I’m blogging cause I love it, it’s something I’ve always done ( I used to blog on paper, I think they used to call it journaling or something). I love writing, I love seeing people comment on my writing, I love when my writing inspires others, I love when others who read my writings inspire me.
Truly, what set me to write this post was a comment on my latest blog post which read -
Tisk Tisk, no new posts, very disapointing
I read that and everything just clicked. Thank you, Val, for showing your disappointment. I appreciate it greatly. I apologize for not updating my site and I apologize for losing sight of what I wanted my site to be. Let’s have some fun this New Year and make this world a funnier, awesomer, snausaugier (wtf?) place.
What about you guys? What have you been stuck on? What has been in the back of your minds, plaguing you, asking you to give it attention? If you give it enough meaning, you’ll find the motivation to get it done.
I’m back.
Love,
The Zimp.
Read MoreDay Long Lifetimes
There’s that moment in between winter and spring where something just clicks in your head. I think it’s that natural animal progamming we have deep down. It’s that day where we tell ourselves, “you know what, today I’ll dress a little better” or “I’ll work out a little harder” or “I’ll eat a little healthier.” It’s that feeling that brings about new possibilities. It reminds us that each day is a new day. That everyday we can be new people. Our past doesn’t equal our future and we can change who we are by the moment. Everything strums along like the beats to a good song. Everything is in motion. Everything is perfect (and perfection is not something you have to attain, perfection is something you already have).
Exciting things have been happening. Nissan picked me as one of 500 people to offer one of 50 Nissan cubes too. I miscalculated and thought I had a 1 in 100 chance. Then, in the shower where I do my thinking, I realized I had a 1 in 10 chance of winning a car. Needless to say that epiphany was followed by some naked yelling and jumping up and down. I’ll work on the beginning stages of my canvas this weekend and let you know where you can go to help me out. Also, I need to ask you all something, so just have your cameras ready cause I’ll need your help.
I’m working a lot with the Wildcard boys and helping out with their new line that is FUCKING AWESOME and completely fresh and just INSANE. I won’t say more but it’s exciting.
Once, again, to whoever is reading THESE WORDS RIGHT HERE, let me take the time to tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to come to my site and read whatever I write on here. Whether we know eachother or not, whether we’ve met in real life or not, know that I appreciate you being here. If you’re a quiet reader who doesn’t comment all that often or one who does, or if you’re the ones you like messaging me or e-mailing me telling me how much you enjoyed something or what your opinions are on something: THANK YOU. From the bottom of my heart. I hope to meet and party with all of you some day. I know this is some deep stuff for something that really doesn’t have an occasion but I think expressing appreciation doesn’t require an occassion. Life is the occassion. Let’s party.
Live and Love.
Read MoreFrozen Lakes and Nothingness.
Quiet contemplation finds me. The frozen lake groans beneath my feet. It’s cracks shake the ground and the mounds of sand. The trees say nothing, covered in elbows, they watch, they be. The snow is nothing but everything at the same time. Being lost in the woods is a great way to find yourself.
I spent years asking, “what’s wrong with me?”
I spent years wondering, “why am I NOT making the most out of this moment?”
I then found out there’s nothing wrong with me and the reason I don’t make the most out of a moment is cause I’m too busy asking stupid questions like, “what’s wrong with me?” and “why am I NOT making the most out of this moment?”
Epiphanies are beautiful things.
The way I feel right now, it’s like this lake hiding under all this ice.
The cracks in the ice is apparent proof to what lies beneath. Something dark, something mysterious, something beautiful.
There’s no feeling like being connected to the infinite wisdom. That feeling of acting out your intentions. Of being. Singing louder, dancing harder, creating, living, laughing, and loving.
Our past does not make us who we are, the future we’re living into does. If you know, full well, that you’re destined for great things in the future, how would you live differently today?
Sing louder, dance harder, laugh longer, love unconditionally, live forever.
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