Navigating the Pits of Despair: A Guide to Thriving in a World gone Mad

In today's world, where the news cycle is a relentless conveyor belt of doom and gloom, it's easy to slip into the pits of despair. (Count me in)

You've seen through the veil of what's called "the top of the world" - the ruling class - and recognized the spin, the fakery, and the self-serving agendas. It's disheartening to see those who are supposedly better educated and positioned to lead, instead contributing to a system that feels like it's turning us all into modern-day slaves. But here's the twist: realizing that the elite might be just as flawed, if not more, can paradoxically be a source of comfort. If those with power and resources are messing up on a grand scale, perhaps your personal "messes" aren't as damning as you might think. 

The Descent into Despair

When you start to see the world through this lens, it's tempting to throw in the towel. Why bother with honesty and kindness when it seems they lead nowhere? The pervasive cynicism can make you feel like giving up not just on personal growth but on humanity itself. The logical conclusion seems to be to retreat into ignorance, following directives blindly, regardless of their moral implications, just to survive.

Pause and recalibrate

However, this is where we need to pause and recalibrate. Yes, the world might be heading in a direction that feels like hell, but here's the silver lining: if all is lost, you can only win. Here's how you can start:

1. Reconnect with Reality:
   • Meet Real People: Escape the echo chambers of social media and negative news by interacting with people in real life. There's something profoundly humanizing about face-to-face interactions, where you can see smiles, share laughs, and build genuine connections.
2. Embrace Honesty and Kindness:
   • Be Genuine: In a world where dishonesty might seem like the norm, choosing truthfulness is not only refreshing but also empowering.
   • Practice Kindness: Small acts of kindness can ripple outwards, creating environments where trust and mutual respect can flourish.
3. Community Over Competition:
   • Share Wealth and Kindness: Whether it's time, money, or just a listening ear, sharing what you can creates a sense of community. It's a counter-narrative to the greed often seen at the top, showing that there's a different way to be.
4. Stay Informed, But Balanced:
   • Curate Your News: Instead of consuming all news indiscriminately, choose sources that offer balanced views or focus on solutions rather than just problems.
   • Take Breaks: Regularly step away from digital screens. Engage in activities that feed your soul, be it nature, art, or sports.

Choose kindness and joy

While the so-called elite might be steering us towards despair with their actions, you don't have to follow suit. The narrative that everything is lost is not only defeatist but also untrue. By choosing to live with integrity, kindness, and community, you're not just surviving in a world gone mad; you're thriving. You're proving that even as the world might be spiraling, there's still room for joy, connection, and positive change. Remember, if the world is going to party like it's 1999, let's make sure it's a celebration of the human spirit, not its downfall.

 I invite you to The Church of Chill 

- because Buddhism is too much of a hassle ;-)

In a world where everyone seems to go mad, go soft. Yes, something is trying to scare us into paranoia, but don't go there, chill. 

Don't hate your neighbour, hate the system. Don't fight the system, resist it. Don't resist your fear, talk about it in The Church of Chill. All religions are welcome and you can be your own God, who cares? 

It's the end of our world as we know it, just try to stay positive. AI is taking over from here and the animals will wonder where the apes in cars went, that's all.  

Join the revolution - CHILL!

I en tåge af narcissisme

Når jeg vågner i en skygge af dis, 

ser jeg silhuetter af håb der rejser sig fra natten for at finde nye græsgange.

 
Når min hånd giver slip på disen, 
driver det som tøris mod det sidste hjerteklap af anerkendelse. 

Dis bliver til tåge, ligesom anerkendelse bliver til lys. Alt jeg ønsker mig er menneskenes bifald, før bifaldet langsomt fører mig tilbage gennem tågen igen.

Mennesket er født i fællesskab, i en hønsering af forpligtende anerkendelse. 
Giv mig den!

#fogyou

Celebration while the neighbors are disappearing 

Looking away doesn’t make us innocent, it makes us complicit!

With all the information in the world, we still choose to believe the propaganda. By not questioning the agenda we are supporting it.

Nobody will save us this time. If we fight the resistance, it will be over before we know it and history will tell us that we wanted it this way.

If we do not dare to look into the darkness, we are the darkness

It took us less than a year to join the dark side of the medical industry, science labs, and fascist governments. The prison we are building is the prison we will live in. What deals have the governments made on our behalf? What guarantees have they given? How will we have to repay them?

There will be no Us vs Them this time. The resistance is our subconscious, our hope for the truth. They are the ones who dare to question. They fight for our rights, so why do we fight them?

It could be you but you have too much to lose, so now we will lose it all. If we think this through. It starts with an endless dept and total control and could end in genocide. Our worst fears could come true. We did this to ourselves and our children. We gave away our last chance to save their lives.

Shame shame shame ..

The blank space of Life

Some days it feels like I am off track, lost in space, not really there

The Silence

A couple of months ago I went on a silent retreat for 4 days, with one question "Who am I?". For 4 days, I asked myself the same question over and over and over again, until it lost its meaning - I became the question. Basically, the question got reduced to "I". 
It turned in to a philosophical dilemma, because all that was left was the question. I did not find any answers, just more questions. Like always, I question. everything. I seek progress, to see the other side, to understand what's behind the obvious .. And sometimes that leaves me hanging in limbo for a long time. I try to rationalize the in's and out's, the intangible and the obvious, the right's and wrong's - and I have also come to the Einstein conclusion that everything is relative. Relatively inconsistent, and that leaves a lot of room to ponder ..

So there I was, accepting the fact that I live in a constant question. "I" am, right there in the middle of "Who am I" and the answer .. That blank space where the question has left the mind before it answers "You are ..". The second the answer comes up the question resolves - it's no longer relevant, because, if you have the answer, there is no need for a question, or is there..? If everything is relative, the answers only existential right is in relation to the question. Without the question, you only get half of the answer. And I wonder ..

In the end, I had to accept that this is who I am, what humanity is, the question. 

Our human consciousness is curiosity, we live the question. 

So here I am, living as a consequence of a billion factors that had to meet, to make me - the blank space, or the perfect hybrid of Q&A = Awareness. And that, in essence, my friends, is humanity. Love is the energy that holds the universe together, the spiritual is what makes it aware of its existence. For some reason, that spiritual energy had to materialize as planet earth, with love driving life as we know it, and the human beings as conscious awareness. This leads me to the statement above "humanity is the question/awareness/curiosity".
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience - G. I. Gurdjieff

That's it - or is it?

That's it, but not all. It seems as we have forgotten the question and only live by the answers. If humanity is the answer, what is the question? For some reason the spiritual energy had to manifest itself into a physical awareness to .?? I'd like to know. 
These days it seems as our answers are predominantly being ruled by religion and capitalism. If we look to the media it seems as humanity is a destructive force of ego's that is willing to sacrifice all for .. what?  That leaves room for another question, for what? Apparently, this destructive force of ego's is being supported by something beyond our reach. I doubt we will ever know the answer to that, but live the consequences. The question is, what are the consequences of the blank space in between the Q&A? Is this "life"?

There I go again, of on my mental journey, into the blank oblivion ..

OK, OK, OK, OK
All I needed to know is, am I Ok? Is it OK to be me? Is it OK to live on a question alone? The awareness in me says "yes - that is the essence of life". The body says "no - we need to make money!", which is only fair. The physical manifestation wouldn't make much sense if I let it starve under a bush in the forest, the physical manifestation needs food and fun too ;-)

The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in identifying the questions

So the real dilemma is, is it OK to earn a living questioning life? Of course, it is.. lot's of people do because they studied and have great titles to their names. But here's the thing; they study answers and forget to question, in essence. Without the question, the answer is relatively weak.

Accepting the blank space

It is hard to live in the blank space for too long. The ego needs to be acknowledged by being able to give answers and possibly making money doing so. True artists produce questions and thrive in this, while floating in the blank space, without being able to give the answers. We, the audience, live the answers and feed them back to artist. True artists can survive the blank space for a lifetime, like David Bowie e.g. But most get beaten down by their egos. (That was an answer to something ;) However, I am not an artist, I am a question.

What are we?

I've been asking a lot of questions all my life, none were given, all were experienced. The fact of the matter is, I've come a long way to be who I am. I've had to make a million choices to be where I am now - just like you. Who you are in relation to me, is the question now that you read this. If I am me, who are you and what are "we"?
These past days I have spent asking myself "is it OK to be me?". Is it OK to ask people to go on this journey with me into the blank space, and I think it is. Does it make sense - hell yeah! It's the meaning of life. Come along!

- come -

25 Struggles Only ENFPs Will Understand (JTI)

I score high as an ENFP in the JTI test - and boy do I know of the struggles on the list in this article!


ENFPs are passion-driven ‘ideas’ people. They gain energy from interacting with the world around them, and become quickly excited over new possibilities. Though ENFPs loves being around people, they crave alone time much more than the average extrovert. ENFPs search for a deeper meaning in just about everything, and use their much-coveted alone time to decide how their experiences fit in with their system of core values. 

25 Struggles Only ENFPs Will Understand

To be Frank, it’s an exhausting personality to have. Here are a few struggles most ENFPs face.

| Thought Catalog

Born and Raised

I haven't had the privilege of a good present dad, I never see him anymore.
He hasn't met my wife and kids. Oh well..


Becoming a good human being is a fulltime job. Being a good parent is a lifetime achievement.

A sea of Cherry Waves

This song is beautifully haunting and draws me in like a sea of waves..

Our precious pretence ..

That is so effin' true ..

Co-exist with lions - The New Endangered Species?

Please watch this clip to the end
Humanity needs to learn how to co-exist with the rest of the planet. Unfortunately it's in our genes to destroy everything, for profit, until humanity itself is destroyed.

Mother earth says, co-exist humans - or don't exist at all.

A tribute to the art and her disarming beauty

B E A U T Y - dir. Rino Stefano Tagliafierro from Rino Stefano Tagliafierro on Vimeo.

Somebody else's dream ..

.. is different from your own nightmare.

The day you stop bleeding ..

Dead people keep telling us to stop feeling, to let the wounds run dry. Why?

Shiny happy people - have their shit together

Shiny happy people

*note

Good for them

I used to despise, but now I envy, people who don't need art in their life to be present or emotional stable. I thought that people who only need music to party or dance where spiritually poor, that they were missing out on the essence of the art in music. My prejudice tells me that they are either in some sort of bliss or ignorant. But now I understand that they are not constantly filling their minds with art, because they don't need to. For them, art is an emotional overload - too much emotional information. Good for them.

I understand that most people prefer music they know, music that is validated, music that is safe and social, so that they can focus on things that matter. Like balancing their accounts.. And I think to myself ' Those people must really have their shit together - how come they are not cool?'
Because they don't need to, they got their shit together(!)

Help me write part two 

*This is part one of a blog post that I am writing. Part two will be posted later. 

Apparently we don't speak the same language and we will probably never understand each other. But why?

I'd love to investigate this further, but i could use a little help here, so feel free to chime in and I'll keep you updated if I ever figure this one out. Until then, think about it, and help me figure this one out by posting your comments below.

Marc Maron, my spiritual older brother

Marc Maron

Over the last couple of years I have listened a lot to Marc Maron, somehow, it feels like he is an older version of myself. Or at least, we are growing together, after being humbled by an emotional storm.

Oddly enough, when I have been in the deepest despair , I can tweet him, and he answers.

Marc my virtual friend. I hope I can return the favour over a tweet some day. Now that you are engaged to be married, let me tell you this - If you ever choose to have children. That path is very dangerous for us, not because of the children, but because of their mother. We are not built to handle the strong mother instinct and the addictive love for our babies. Eventually it will conflict.

My battle with me and I in a picture

But who am I and who is who??
Greatly inspired by 'The Power of Now' I have decided that something, or somebody, in me has to go in 2013. I have a split personality, with different strength. But which one should survive?

And this is me, aggressively flying my big bleeding ego flag.

Pictures by Troilo

'Live fast, Die young' ..

The problem with 'Live fast, Die young' 
 - is that you survive.



Once divided...nothing left to subtract...
Some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
Future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking...
Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...

Faith and trust at sea

I would never have left the shore with you, had I known, you count your weight in gold.

You pushed away as I was sinking, when you promised that we would sail this stormy ocean together.

You took away all my lifesavers, to build your own float - and I was not waving goodbye, I was drowning.

Every betrayal begins with trust .. 

Origional lyrics
"And I've got this black suit on

Roaming around like I'm ready for a funeral
Five more miles till the road runs out

I'm about to drive in the ocean
I'ma try to swim from something bigger than me
Kick off my shoes and swim good and swim good
Take off this suit and swim good and swim good, good .."

Chasing a dream

Sometimes I wonder if I am chasing a dream or running away from a nightmare ..??

4 real

Some days all my ideas and expectations come crashing down on me.

I am always my own worst opponent. 

Listen: www.wtfpod.com/podcast

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