What I Believe (In)

  1. The world is amazing because anything can happen at any time—which means you always have a chance.

  2. Silence will bring you closer to all good things (yourself, the gods, ideas, etc.) it also works as a multi-tool.

  3. Self-explanatory. Whether the results are any good is a matter of opinion.

  4. Life is a game that I am grateful to play. Even when I lose and even when winning feels like losing, maybe especially then.

  5. Consistency, faith, eating well, and good people are the cornerstones of my life.

  6. I don’t care how bad things are—music WILL help.

  7. You will never regret improving your relationship with yourself.

  8. I don’t care how frustrated you are—find a better way to express that.

  9. Life is the perfect juxtaposition of horror and happiness, get used to it.

I may be peaking on whimsical nihilism these days but with the experiences and understanding of death I have at this point in my life, I have no choice but to love being alive. Everything about this makes no sense, which allows us to find some way to create perfect sense in our own way as we see fit. As an artist, how could you not want to take full advantage of the impermanence of life? We exist as temporary exhibitions. We are on display for a short while, in the grandest scheme of things, so we might as well push every limit. Why go insane trying to follow a path some dead person walked? Is there any sense in adhering to the laws laid down by a corpse? The only true rules are that you will suffer and you will die, so you might as well break all their rules until those rules break you.

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