we do it because we love it

In regards to my last blog...

You don't 'decide' what you do... you do what you do because its what makes you the person you are. If the great songwriters before us had decided to work for, say the council or something instead of write the amazing songs that define moments of our lives... I would not have enjoyed and explored the parts of life I thankfully have. If I had never read Shakespeare to Stephen King, watched dance pieces by Isadora Duncan to Merce Cunningham, explored performances by the Worcester Group to researching Jaques Lecoq (where I began to loosely apply the semiotics of clowning to my everyday life!), laughed my heart out to the likes of Billl Hicks and Eddie Izzard, my life wouldn't be well... bad - but it would certainly be different, and perhaps not quite as nice.

I guess I'm gonna try to start taking more advice from my small intellectual book by John C. Parkin called Fu*k It. A conclusion to years worth of religious research, all theories broken down to this idea of thinking... you know what... F**k it.

Here's a brief section from his notes...

How F**k It Works, Pt. I:
You realise that things don't matter so much after all.

Most of us believe that meaning and purpose in life are good things to have: where the heck would we be without a sense of meaning and purpose for goodness' sake?

In fact, from a young age we start to pursue meaning - and the bigger MEANING - of life. This process usually culminates at around age 18, late at night, drunk and arguing with other students about The Meaning of Life.

Funny, then, that we get so much relief from saying F**k It to things as adults... given that we usually say F**k It when the things that mean a lot to us have begun to cause us pain.
For example, if keeping fit means a lot to you, but the early-morning runs or the squeezed-in gym sessions have started to become like torture - then you'd say F**k It and stop training, or do something else.
When we say F**k It, we say 'Well, it's causing me so much pain, it's not that important is it?'.
And as we start to say F**k It to things in our lives, we realise that it's the things most matter - that mean the most - that either cause us pain or have the potential to cause us pain.
Saying 'F**k It' reduces the hold that these 'meanings' have on us.
In Buddhist terms, we begin to release our attachments.
And meaning is attachment .

Particular favourite quotes are...

That thing you're worrying about will most probably work out just fine. F**k it.

Say F**k it to the things you can't change

Curry kills cancer cells... red wine helps with heart disease... The F**k It Life is now being supported by scientists.

Might write a song called F**k It. haha :-)

Love from the idealistic, idiotic, idling, invitingly itchy, imaginative, intimate ink-cartridge.

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