On Inevitability, Beauty, Truth, & Experience

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

 

“If we focus on fighting death, we can only lose…

If we focus on living life, we can only win.”

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For many years, I’ve held on to the feeling of invincibility I’ve known all of my life.  Like the sense one has before a test when they just know they have a better-than-average chance of coming up aces; of being prepared to rise above the challenge and feeling lucky at the same time.  Even when I went through a bout of depression and paralysis several years ago – it was, in part, because I was angry that the inevitable shit-show was taking too long get started and the waiting to die was killing me.

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