Manifesto by Alex Finley
1. Don’t fall into the trap
You mustn’t fall into the trap; people take the easy way out by following the people and influences before them, with out thinking if it is what they really want. You can fall into the trap by thinking the choices on front of you are your own, when they are really a creation, made by someone else.
2. Express yourself
Show your true colors, if you see that groovy accessory in the store, and you think, “I like it, but it might be to intense”, get it anyway, if you like it, then I must be what you like. This is how you can express yourself.
3. Don’t walk on the sidewalk
The sidewalk seems like the typical way to go, but it is a trap. Instead of letting people chose their own way, the sidewalk was set there to have a direction for people to go, but it limits the choices, and keeps people in line.
4. Make your own choices
When given choices in life, to pick a club, a sport, an outfit, or foods, you are only choosing the choices that the Man chose for you, so they are not your choices, they are his. You can only be free and see clearly with you want, if you have no choice. Choices are an allusion, they make it seem like picking an option is a sense of freedom, when it is really restricting, we can truly live clear lives, if we realize that the choices set before us cant be changed, and there is no choice, “for were there is clarity, there is no choice, and when there is choice, there is misery”. So don’t have those choices, choose your own.
5. Be yourself
Don’t fall into categories, make your own. Be yourself, make your own choices; be happy with what you do, and don’t let anyone change that. Make your own sidewalk, don’t let the man choose for you, and don’t be controlled.
6. Be kind with your choices, you know it is right
Everyone wants to be who they are, and it might take then a few tries to get it right, so let people make their own choices and be themselves, so the world will be full of different people, who are living the same, because they are following their own paths, and if paths cross, enjoy the company.
I want to give you some advice today. Today it is easy to fall into the trap of categories, pathways, and it is hard to really know if one is truly being them selves. I found that looking at 6 key points will show us the way of individuality.
Don’t fall into the trap. In life we are presented with choices. Options and choices that stand before us,
All of them a different path.
Different ways to go,
All a different sidewalk for us to take.
The sidewalk shows us a direction, one way to go, a way to go from point A to point B, but this sidewalk was a path chosen for us, a direction the creator wants all people to take, a line, why choose a path that is not our own? The path we take wont be our decision unless we stray from the sidewalk, and create a new way to go, a way all our own.
We must create our on options.
All the options and choices set before us were chosen and picked, manipulated and changed. Chosen by the Man.
We feel that choices before us, is like a taste of freedom, a touch of power in out lives, but the choices the world gives us, is only an allusion, fake power. Because the choices set before us are not our own, they let us choose what we want, from a pile of options, all placed there by a higher power. So don’t choose the choices chosen by someone else, because the choice wont be your own, it would have been already picked for you.
The way to get out of this, stop falling into categories, groups, trends, fads, these things cloud our minds. We can only live clear and happy lives, if we have no choices, nothing but out own thoughts. For we can only have clarity if there is no choice, for when there is choice, there are misery, and boundaries, cages, holding us in place.
So instead of choosing the choices set before you, lets make our own.
Lets make our own categories, options, choices, this is how we can be our selves, we can pick things out of our own choices. We can make a group all our own.
So don’t just be another person, walking on the sidewalk, be you, and make your own path. If the world all chose from the same options, this wont be a very colorful life.
Listen to yourself and make your own choices, then why listen to me? This is my choice, my option. Listening to me would only make you another follower, so don’t. But then why listen to me anyway.