I think this has been posted before. I've been trying take this approach to life lately.......hasn't gone too well, but figured I'd post this anyway:



The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride...” And we........kill those people.

"Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family! This HAS to be real!"

.....but it's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try to tell us that and let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love.

-Bill Hicks

I'm a big fan of Bill Hicks and I agree with a lot of things he's said! Suffering from depression myself I think that that statement is true about it's all just a ride but sometimes I can't just take it that lightheartedly!

Yeah, it's hard to live with that mentality, but it makes sense especially for someone with depression. I've been down lately because I have no job and, thus, money.

Bill's basic point, as I interpret it, is that in the end it doesn't matter what you've done in life, or what you've supposedly "accomplished". Therefore, living a good life is easy. All you need to do is simply do the right thing in the moment you're living in.

Amen to that

I've always seen it as, we get to caught up in materialism and commercialism, we think the world is about the next shiny thing we can get, about being better than others, stronger and faster. We must have the most money, the best cars, the biggest houses. But when it all comes down to it, none of that matters, yet we still fear life without them, we have been so bred on consumerism that we forget what life is about. Which is simply, living, being good and treating others well.

I kinda like the Jem song too...

Life, it's ever so strange
It's so full of change
Think that you've worked it out
then BANG
Right out of the blue
Something happens to you
To throw you off course
and then you

Breakdown
Yeah you breakdown
Well don't you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you round and round
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared
don't hide your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget it's just a ride

Truth, we don't wanna hear
It's too much to take
Don't like to feel out of control
So we make our plans
Ten times a day
And when they don't go
our way we

Breakdown
Yeah we breakdown
Well don't you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you round and round
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared
don't hide your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget it's just a ride

Slowly, oh so very slowly
except that
there's no getting off
So live it, just gotta go with it
coz this ride's, never gonna stop

Breakdown
Don't you breakdown
No need to breakdown
No need at all
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you all around
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared now
dry your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget enjoy the ride

YouTube - Jem Just a Ride

bill hicks was a wise man, and a very funny one too.

Time has come to air the voice of reason,
in a world gone mad, adrift on banal seas,
for all who feel that lies have had their season
and whose hearts cry out instead for honesty.
For all the weary souls grown bored with dreaming,
this thirst for beauty and for knowledge goes unslacked.
For all who want to wake from what is dreaming
to know what's real and what is real to embrace.
For all who've watched with mounting horror,
evil's rein upon this world grow ever clear,
for all who've prayed in vain, emancipators,
wielding swords of truth and laughing without fear

YouTube - Bill Hicks Manifesto for Counts Of The Netherworld