Live Rich or Die Tryin'

Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with Hedonism.  Nor with 50 Cent. (You guys know about 50 Cent, don’t you?)

‘It’s been awhile’. That’s just a figure of speech. It’s actually been ages. May be I was undergoing the literary incubation. Occupied with a ‘deafening silence’. They say: Speech is silvern (silvery); Silence is golden. Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts. Boy, is it a dissonance? Take a moment to figure it out!

Life is a Catch-22 in a way. Either way, you lose. When you fight life, life always wins. When you succumb to it, you lose by default. The more experience you have, the worse your life will become. Or it is just a blessing in disguise. Or as Kurt Cobain said… Whatever, never mind! Censure my negative connotation. What people think of me… well, that’s none of my business. Dogs bark at what they don’t understand. (No offence, but the real dogs were literally barking out here when I was jotting these lines.)

Life is a gamble. You ought to take risks. If you are going through hell, keep going. Heaven can wait. Life ain’t no fairy tale. It ain’t no Mario Game either—you don’t get to be Mario or Luigi now and then. (If you remember Mario, your childhood must be kickass.) You are who you are, and you got to deal with it. Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. When it comes to “try”… it is a pathetic word. There is no such thing as ‘trying’. Either you do something or you don’t do it at all. Either you jump off the cliff or you back off like chicken. You don’t get to fly in between, unless you are an Icarus. The thing is there is no in between. You don’t hasten slowly. Run the race or get lost. ‘Try’ is an excuse to yourself. A way to ‘save you face.’ You deserve better than that, I guess.

Rolling stone gathers no moss. Although “The Rolling Stones” used to gather mass and rock ‘em back in its old days, and still can. Life is simple; you make choice and don’t look back. Do yourself a favor here—don’t do yourself a favor. Leave your extra parachute back. Don’t get a backup plan. Do or die. Find out what you wanna get out of your life, and burn down all other bridges. If you don’t know what you are gonna do with your life, take a moment to get your balls together. Stake your future on a single turn of wheel in order to get it. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Make your purpose an all consuming obsession. Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. Don’t let the alternatives corrupt you. Stock brokers and finance students must have their heads in their hands reading this.

Alas! We live in the age of accountants, not the poets. Da Vincis, and Shakespeares are lucky that they weren’t born today. Nobody would turn a blind eye or a deaf ear or an empty mind to them.

So is life worth living? Well, it depends upon the ‘liver’. Pun intended, absolutely!

-          ©Linkinmyth: Live Rich or Die Tryin’