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To Be a Nobody

I read an article of Friday that was titled "The Purpose of Life is to Be a Nobody".  Feel free to read the article as it has some good points to it.  The basics are that we are in this grand universe and that thinking that you are special only puts too much pressure on you and actually holds you back from living life to its fullest.  Basically the less you care about things the more able you are to just live.

This isn't a bad way to think.  One of the things that I've tried to do is to care less about what others actually think about me.  If they're going to be a part of my life then they will have to accept me for me just being me.  I've made friends that way, so it's not like it doesn't work.

When I go out, and by that I just mean leaving the apartment, I do my best to not care what anyone that I meet thinks about me.  Chances are I'll never see them again.  No one is ever going to see me always at my best.  Heck, I don't even know what my "best" is.  I'd rather them see me near my worst as that's a better judgement of their character than mine.

But to go about to make yourself a nobody as the article states is not really possible.  Thinking you're not special is actually quite easy.  But there will always be people out there that think you are.  I've already forgotten everything about the article so that may actually be in there, but it's a good point nonetheless.  If you went through life thinking you're a nobody then you will kind of end up like me now.

You will be alone.  You will have been alone for a long time.  This isn't to say you won't have friends.  No, they will be there.  They will be the ones that keep you from laying down for good.  But to become a nobody can be dangerous.  If you don't think you're a little bit special, not in the cosmic/universal sense, but in just the basic human sense then you will go through life feeling like dirt.  I know, I've done it.

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