Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. There are ways out. There is a light, somewhere. It might not be much light but it beats the darkness.
Be on the watch. You will be offered chances. Know them, take them! You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life. Sometimes, and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be.
You are marvelous.
Be aware of the average man, the average woman. Be aware of their love. Their love is average, seeks average. Not being able to love fully, they will believe your love is incomplete. And then they will hate you. They will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own. Not being able to create art, they will not understand art.
Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself. Change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you. Reinvigorate yourself and accept what it is but only under terms that you have invented and reinvented.
Reinvent your life because you must. It’s your life and it’s history – and the present belongs only to you.
- Charles Bukowski
