Wednesday, October 7, 2015

LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE



DO AS I SAY IF YOU DO AS I DO YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG

The path to sanity is conformity, do as others do, speak as others speak, wear what others wear and when it all changes, change with it. Follow that path that is worn so deep from the footstep them whom you follow, that all you smell is the ass gas from the person whose heels you walk on, where the sun only shines in that chasm of conformity when that ball of fire is directly overhead. May it burn your ass for being ignorant of real sanity! 

Sanity is finding the footsteps of another and going in a different direction, cutting your own trail to your own end. Your dreams are the first thing to die in the canyon of conformity and then your sanity follows and all hope is dead with it. Watch that god damned television as long you can, eat all the crap you can find falling into your well-worn trench, thrown there by them who made the signs pointing you to the trail and making you think it is the only one. Fucking ignorance of  conformist sanity—I hate it.

© Durfee
10.7.2015
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  1. GraceOctober 7, 2015 at 11:44 AM

    Love the title and, yes, we must find and cut our own trail to our own end ~ Sadly most of us just keep on following and digging the same trench of conformity ~

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:37 AM

      Grace want me to tell you a secret--every step in that trench has a door alongside it, all you have to do is recognize your habits of conformity then turn to the door and be willing to accept the unknown changes on the other side. Soon after the fear subsides you feel the cool breeze and the warm sun on your face.

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  2. Erik Donald FranceOctober 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM

    Amen, brother ~ I neither confirm nor conform out of uniform informality ~ "x" marks the spotless shadows' way ~~>

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:34 AM

      NEVER Erik. I'd rather stumble through the brier patch for the rest of my days than be trapped on that path.

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  3. CloudiaOctober 7, 2015 at 7:59 PM

    Some great phrases, lines, and unsettling words that make us examine ourselves. Thank You, M










    ALOHA
    ComfortSpiral


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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:32 AM

      Thanks Cloudia--I am tired of having to smell the odors rising from that trench, this is my way of giving them there a chance to shower away the mud from the eyes.

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  4. XOctober 7, 2015 at 9:01 PM

    You know, this is one of the things I hope my students get. That they dont have to be the same, they can use their individuality - they have to take risks, but that is how you truly live. Not stiffing or kissing the ass of the person in front of you.

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:30 AM

      X--feel free to read this to them and then end class for the day for them to think about what they are being turned into. Your kids are the right age to turn their path.

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  5. Charles GramlichOctober 8, 2015 at 10:28 AM

    I tend to blunder around a lot myself.

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:28 AM

      Charles you don't blunder--you just drive aimlessly until you get to your destination. Yet i will say when you drive you do it with intensity.

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  6. ShadowOctober 8, 2015 at 11:30 AM

    Snap! I believe we're in sync...

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:27 AM

      Shadow I believe we two are what keeps the earth in balance because we usually do sync up.

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  7. kjOctober 8, 2015 at 10:16 PM

    I have faults but conformity is not one of them. Likewise you.

    No tv for me for 6 weeks. No cnn. No Donald trump. Just colors and words of my own making xo

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:26 AM

      kj, I do not fault them who can not see, they took to the constructs of what they were told was normal. Normal, now that is a word rarely applied to the free. Yes ma'am keep working on that book!

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  8. PhilipHOctober 9, 2015 at 5:27 AM

    Yes Mark, so many are merely sheep disguised in 'fashionable' clothing.

    I think that some of the lyrics of 'My Way' should be our anthem. Great post Mark.

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:24 AM

      Philip--I could go along with that suggestion for an anthem of the individual who sees things differently from the mewling crowd.

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  9. sageOctober 9, 2015 at 1:02 PM

    Good sermon, walking man!

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:23 AM

      Thanks Jeff, I thought I was done preaching decades ago but I guess i still have something to say from this pulpit.

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  10. UnknownOctober 10, 2015 at 3:23 AM

    Easy to manage the sheep who conform - and we are trained from birth...

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    1. the walking manOctober 10, 2015 at 4:22 AM

      Denise, hi there. Trust me some of us are born to parents who did not believe in massive amounts of conformity. Though I will agree there are too many who over their lifetime give up the freedoms of true humanity.

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  11. jodiOctober 21, 2015 at 8:32 PM

    You always bang your own drum, Mark-no conformist you! xo

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So Walking Man I was thinking...

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