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Relenting Mentally

To step back and observe the after effects after having an adult-sized tantrum is to soak up the rubbish heap one has foolishly made of life.

It is often the case to find the damage is irretreivably interwoven in the mind and home, and it isn't easy to soak in exactly everything that happened - before, during and after. It is part of the human autopilot to not absorb our mistakes, more to clean up afterwards and hope there's not too much need for a temporary fix to heal the wounds.

"But every junkie's like a setting sun..."

Dependence upon false arguments can leave one against the wall as if a representation of the rubble from admitting irrelevance and defeat. Some things are best unravelled and let go of, yet it is understandable that one may not have much else but to stand atop the rubble and begrudgingly accept it is of their own doing.

To unwind one's anxiety, through articulating and understanding why they are wound up, is to make oneself of more relenting character. To not be so fierce and swift in argument would be to find oneself and mindstate somewhat more than a history deconstructed.

Leading one's brute force, either verbally or physically, to self satisfaction is to leave oneself amongst the leftovers in the town of Troy - bigger in our idea of it than what is actually there. To forget the complexes of the day and tolerate in a defnitively relaxed state is to display the inner strength that is expected of civilisation today.

So relent, settle the fierceness, and let your surroundings feel the satisfaction too.
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Criticism

Every so often one may find themselves in a conundrum whereby there is a lack of understanding, and possibly a slight detachment, between seperate parties. Connecting cultures is so much more about preceeding reputation and the impression gathered from one's own perception, rather than demanding an exemption in effort to keep as one.

From struggling artists to harsh critics, it can be natural to pit oneself against a interpersonal relationship that is based on disagreement and disappointment. But for many it can be obvious that a shift in thinking will make the struggle a hell of a lot easier.

It can be cutting to be greeted into an industry with rejection of the work one has to offer. And in the case of continued rejection, the time will naturally come to move along and try something more commercial, or to use self depreciating humour, 'institutionalised.'

Making a living out of what we love tends to be more of a labour than one may have hoped. To exaggerate one's expectations can be useful for the purposes of promotion, but the lack of creative inspiration can rear its head upon the mental note that one may have not achieved what they thought they would in the first instance.

In such a case, one might assume firey criticism as a grounding with which to observe from a different point of view what they have perceived a glowing example of lifetime achievement.

And lets not get it wrong, many will have a shining example from the first instance - they are the obvious for the fact that they are hard to shake off. Like radio stations playing the same songs in a two hour loop, like celebrities that have a PR machine bigger than Piccadilly Circus, they can tend to drum into our psyche as if it is useless to deny.

Just to know, whatever bundles of creative joy we have produced on our own terms, they are products that are birthed without the need for everyone's recognition. One person's Neo Soul music is another's Jazz Fusion, for what may be a tortured concept for one can be seen as perfection by another.

As the seed is planted, so will it grow beyond what we thought would become of it. As Pearl Jam articulated in 1991, Drop the Leash......
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Existential Realism

I've finally been able to pull my thoughts together on what on earth can describe a philosophy that has a name with minimal accepted definition. Whenever I had been asked in the past, I would claim myself a follower of such - if only for it being heartfelt without bothering to build too much on the topic.

I got away with it...

For the purpose of simplicity, its a two sided argument, whereby one must decide how much they are getting by just existing, and how realistic they are being when utilising the opportunities provided.

Being existential will involve the acceptance of the obvious cycle of life and being non-plused about the occurances in your surroundings, expecting the continuance of the daily routine to carry on as normal. When external influences make an effort to change your perception on life, there is a fight or flight response that maintains your lifestyle and with which you built it from.

One may find that every so often, whether feeling an external event is negative or positive, this event will make one take note of exactly how realistic they are being with the opportunities provided.

At first, it may seem like a request that you can turn down when you can't be bothered. In the instance that it can be seen as a demand, you're expected to take the opportunity available. It becomes undeniable.

And as one opens their eyes to the full scope of their landscape, the decision to take the opportunity becomes undeniably realistic. There is no doubt it is simply something you should do, if only to define yourself and separate off from the idea of merely existing.

Existing, isn't the full scope of reality.
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Nine Mediterranean Standouts

It has come to the point of no return. My overseas budget is officially kaput. With a bit of introspection and reflection, I've narrowed it down to a handful of exceptionally defining moments that I'll carry through life as being well worth the experience.

1; The six Euro bottles of white port from Porto. Undeniably the best way to get sloshed on a backpack budget


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The environment you listen to

Flowing through every being is the notion of sense. Some have five, some more and others less. At best we are qualified to talk about those of us with five.

Some will be deaf to music, blind to violence, mute to a loudspeaker, unable to taste salt or feel the wind. It is often requested of us to do without one or the other. Whether you listen to that request, can be determined by the environment you prefer to tune in to


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NewsFlash!

Despite rumours to the contrary, it has been confirmed that Julia Gillard is NOT Machiavelli. With our friends at Ten News mistaking a list of boys she may or may not have kissed in the past with a list of people who intend to take her two feet in three pies leadership, a media storm has been created.

Wayne Swan, although suspiciously not on the list of most kissable, has confirmed it a lie to the (somewhat underground) BS detector. With Annabelle Crabb now in the hot seat at ABC Online, Fairfax were disabled in picking up the signal. The flaming poo at SMH headquarters' doorstep seemed to be the crossing of wires making every left field conversation that mentioned carbon tax somehow squeeze in the issue of Asylum seekers


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Burning Bridges and Accepting the Loss

Lemongrass and Ginger can be very therapeutic, when consumed at the right time and place. So can adapting to the herd mentality of criminal opportunism, as long as everyone else is doing it.

It can be almost too easy to compare the 2011 London riots to the same place and political persuasion of the 1980's version thereof. Hey maybe its just a case of the kids aspiring to take a similar rite of passage as their parents. The older generation would say the code of conduct was "Smash the State." The younger seem to have a new code, something more street level


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Dim Lights

They do it but they don't know why.

Too much of reading, watching and listening to the same people under the same rule. To have someone look up from the paper and say, "What do you think of this same sex marriage business" can only be expected to be replied to with political patronage. As with abortion and women's rights, it is something in everyday life that shouldn't be considered in a political view


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Big city cats

Good to see I still have that ubiquitous mentality.

I'll be encompassing 9 countries over the next month or two, and its going ahead only by the will of my want to encompass and absorb the places of interest that have an influence both before, and after, actually being in the place


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Thinking Aloud

Mental health week has now become mental health millenium.

And oh how apparent it is. The majority will no longer discriminate, if only as much as they do to tobacco smokers. Considering the percentage of both groups is about the same.. I'll let you do the correlation


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