There Are No Rules

Everything is made up.

We can cooperate. We can make new rules. We can change or remove old ones.

Observable nature is barely understood by us as individuals. We can understand our own natures. We must strive to find how we relate to everything that is and everything that has come before us.

Nobody can tell you what truly matters to you. You know what matters, what should matter.

You can live according to grace and according to love. It does not imply weakness.

In second grade, I had a project to draw and color dinosaurs. I was going to make them purple and blue. The teacher said the dinosaurs could only be shades of brown and green and gray.

Why? Did she know them? Are their descendents, reptiles of today, and birds of today, only brown and green and gray?

She reneged after I had already finished coloring them in her drab colors.

You have nothing to lose by following your heart and listening to your gut. Trusting your own mind, your own body, has lost emphasis in our society. You already know what you need. Your heart knows. Your sinews know.

There is no one truth. This world is natural chaos. We are all a part of it; it cannot be controlled oppressively. Understandings change, religions are born and die, laws are made and unmade to suit our times. The fractal is natural; the spiral is normal; our categorizations are not. They can and will be warped and absorbed by time.

No one can turn you into an animal. No one can reduce or categorize you into one flat plane.

You’ve always known what freedom is. You can always choose it.

(Note that this is not an excuse to break rules of some of our currently necessary constructs, such as driving. Driving is a highly dangerous activity – I’ve always lived in car-dependent areas, and getting places safely depends both on following the rules and cooperation. This is an example of a privilege we can have revoked easily if abused, even if your local transit depends on it — some things must be done without ego. Those are good rules to follow. Social constructs, on the other hand, are free to be questioned.)