Walking on Thin Ice

LIVIN LIVES ON OLD LIES

I says’m as I sees’m.
Seize not what sold to sum.

Hadn’t done, wouldn’t be.
Do what told be gone.

- Smith & Lady collab

Most people worship the past; live their lives on old lies. Too many worship and conform.

You gotta use the dead as the starting point. A guide. It’s what’s gone before you grow to later. It’s collaboration, that’s what it is. Do what told be done.

If you meet your past on the road, you should kill it. Yes.

“My enemy is my past. That’s what torments me now.”

No. That’s what got you here. Hadn’t done, wouldn’t be.

I sound kinda wise. If I can take all these little answers and build them up, I can have a bigger answer. I get a bunch of bigger answers and build them up, I can get bigger yet. Eventually, I can figure things out.

“It’s kinda like playing Tetris. How do you know you won’t get any blockages?”

Oh, they’re guaranteed. Plus, I get things wrong, I miss other things in plain sight… but I do get more right than wrong. Believe in right and wrong.

“So what are the small things?”

Finding anwers on the Internet. Predicting Flow.

“And the bigger things?”

Two little things together can frequently connect into something bigger. That’s what living’s all about.

“I think that’s wisdom: knowing the scope of things.”

I think wisdom is knowing things cost. And there’s better or worse for everything. And basically, better is better.