Present Moment, Framework of Thought, Spirit of Adventure. Personal Universes

By O.M. Hillside · Jun 10, 2018 · 689 · 4
  1. I feel like the first batch of stories I wrote almost belong in their own universe fueled by some kind of HUD of perceptions. Ideas about people and the world. Observations. Depth of life experience. Perspective. And in just a few months, I've changed so much as a person, for the better I think, and I'm no longer able to write exactly the way I did before. Because the underlying assumptions of those universes I created, I no longer take for granted. Or at least not in the same way. It's not like I've completely changed to the point I can't recognize myself in my previous writing. But, yeah, I guess it's just change. And, hopefully, improvement.

    An epiphany I've had. When your universe can no longer sustain the impulse of your writing, expand your universe. You know what I mean? When your spirit of exploration, your will to truth, has become too eager to handle the small universe that you've created, it's time to expand. Of course, this opens the floodgates of craziness, of ups and downs, but nevertheless, you must go out and expand your universe. To quote Kanye West, just say it out loud, see how it feels. In a way, that quote is about exploring who you are and your place in the external universe. So just stay in the moment, experience every moment with 100% of your attention, and put yourself into new situations. When you do that, you expose yourself to new data with which you'll eventually build a functional mental framework around.

    That's the key. Educate yourself. Add more ideas. Not in the industrial, assembly line approach of school. Not that school isn't a tool. But you should make school work for you, you shouldn't be working for the school. But you don't need school, entirely. Fill your brain not with curriculum or agenda, but with the profound truths of life. Explore them. Fill it with a story, a legend. Beyond a legend, a universe. Integrate these ideas with intelligence, critical thinking, appreciation for nuance, logic, and reason. And love. And understanding. And perspective coming from direct immersion of the present moment.
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  1. Magus
    Beautifully written. I'm most excited in my life when I'm learning something new, expanding my universe as you say. It's strange how it works though, to get better we must accept the possibility failure, yet most of us are terrified of it. We cease our exploration of those places where failure stands seemingly immovable in our path, yet we yearn to learn what's beyond it.

    Our primal protection system is at odds with our human curiosity. It was those of our ancestors who conquered that fear and explored the world around them with wonder and curiosity, who walked towards the danger and uncertainty to see what lay on the other side; those are the men and women who got us here.


    Magus, Jun 11, 2018
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  2. O.M. Hillside
    Dude love that Bruce Lee clip.
    O.M. Hillside, Jun 11, 2018
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  3. GrahamLewis
    Nicely done. A healthy and vigorous view of writing and the effects it can (and probably should) have.

    My view of it all could be summarized simply as "Life is the educator, school is but one tool and the further away from it I am, the more I realize what a small role it played in the bigger picture."

    Or something like that.

    P.S. This is probably a generational thing, but I would have quoted someone more intellectually solid than Kanye West. But, whatever.
    GrahamLewis, Jun 11, 2018
  4. O.M. Hillside
    I fully understand that Kanye is a major douche. But he's a poet and has his own life philosophy. I don't admire him to be honest, but I see what he's doing, and I approve. The man lives in a universe of his own creation. And obviously he's stumbled upon something that hits a nerve for many people. Hip hop has its roots in vulgarity and ignorance, but it's expanded and will get more intelligent. In fact, I've heard many artists in hip hop who are evolving the genre. I think rap is still in its early adolescence, let's say. Kanye will definitely go down as one of the people who changed it. In a couple decades, it'll be like quoting something Chuck Barry said. Or Mick Jagger. Or John Lennon. Of course it's a much different environment back then, so I see why it could be ridiculous to say this. Just an intuition.

    I mean think about what I actually quoted. Just say it out loud, see how it feels. That's kind of like quoting, all you need is love. Or, hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. Although, I have to admit that latter one is a lot more poetic than either of these. I don't think rap has a pink floyd yet. But the will. And then they'll have a Nirvana. And the genre will deteriorate and become tried and boring, and something new will likely replace it.
    O.M. Hillside, Jun 11, 2018
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