Some Quick and Easy Steps to Disassemble Yourself for the Better Part 2

Find the good things about yourself.

You’re not ALL bad. Even Lucifer was an angel once. Accept that part of you as well. What good things have you done for others lately? For yourself? Write them down. Put them in a list. Do this everyday.

Some of you may be wondering why I placed this in the middle and not at the top. Because thisone is easier to swallow. Always get on with the hard stuff first, then the easier ones will be a sinch.

Accept the saint and the sinner.

Yeah, you’re both. Stupid.

Armed with this knowledge, and hopefully a new found attitude about yourself, your next step is to do something about it.

Some Quick and Easy Steps to Disassemble Yourself for the Better Part 1

See yourself for the scum that you are.

Take a big look at yourself on the mirror, then turn off the lights. The image reflected is pretty much useless. What you see there is an illusion. You won’t be needing your eyes for this one anyway.

Accept that you have your faults and hypocrises.

Write them all down. There’s no such thing as an underdog. There never truly was. 

Bloggers and Liars

When you lie, you fry.

As writers/bloggers do we have the freedom to lie to our readers? I mean, there’s no way in hell they’re going to know whether we’re telling the truth or not, right? Fuck ‘em.

Yes, we can lie to our readers. Sheesh, heck, we can even lie to OURSELVES.  You know you’re screwing with people’s hopes and minds. Making them feel that someone ACTUALLY understands and relates with what they’ve gone through. But deep down inside you know you’re a rotten son of a bitch. Even a dense motherfucker knows THAT.

Blogging/writing the truth feels great, especially if you get quite a lot of comments. It’s like your life is validated as “interesting”. LOLZ! It somehow boosts your ego that they connect with you. Fuck! That’s a high of Freudian design!

Although the choice is yours. When the shit hits the proverbial fan, you’ll be the first one with a mouthful of it. tag: blogging, lying

Narcissism Post

Yeah! FINALLY was able to put up the “ABOUT ME” stuff. Maybe you’d like to take a small peek?

Yeah, I know it’s self serving but hey…!!! 

Taorist’s Happy Weekend Post

Hey Ho! I just took this cool test and what I’d get?
 

If I could only magically make myself as cool loooking as this. 

Thanks to Heavy Metal Fred! 

Time Travelling to Different Time Zones

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

John F. Kennedy

I used to be a young, self-righteous, close-minded jerk. Now I’m a middle-aged self-righteous, close-minded jerk. I thought I changed for the better. I felt that I was above what I thought was morally wrong. I am more ethically right. More open-minded. No. I am SO not that. I seem have a love-hate relationship with myself.

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Google Gags Gums

Yeah, yeah.

Google.cn has just put a gag on it’s own program. The Chinese government wants to control the info. They want to “filter” it. It’s all over the freaking news/internet/newpaper/dog’s ass. 

Big deal. Yahoo and MSN did it. Didn’t hear as much as a whimper about it. Yet what they did was WORSE!

Yahoo gave up the “dissident” to the Chinese authorities. MSN brought down a blogsite because it was going up against the government.

I think Google.com did the right thing. “WTF??!!!,” you may be saying. First off, I don’t work for Google (though I wish I did). Second, I’d rather censor myself than feel guilty about sending someone to jail or pulling down their blog. How can there be a “SIN” when it don’t show up in your screens?

Google is a corporation ladies and gentlemen. They’re going to find ways to get the dough. If they need to “customize” the program it’s in their (and their shareholders’) prerogative to do so.
  tag: google.cn, tag: google.com, tag: google censor in China

The Blue Fish vs. the taorist

I am now part of the Blue Fish Network.

Check ‘em out. They’re a group of bloggers who’s out to network with others because they want to help each other out. Hey! Maybe you’d like to join us as well. You won’t be given any quotas and you’ll be using your own blog. How great is THAT!

You got nothing to lose and more blog-friends to gain. It’s a win-win situation. What you waiting for? tag: bluefish network, blog network

Destroy/Save the World By Being Me

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

–Thomas A. Kempis– 

Who the fuck am I to tell others how they should be? How they should live, eat, breath, treat, and screw other prople.

I have done my share of righteous indignation, I was blind to my own limitations and stupidity. Other people had to adjust to MY needs. They had to change. There’s so many things these people should work at. If they did, the world  would spin peacefully.

MY world.

Inside MY head.

It’s time to look at myself. Rush back the camera. Re-focus on something else. ME. See the holes in my soul. Darkness in my heart. The dirt in my mind. The infection in my skin. The inapprorpiate size of my body parts.

I need to accept people as they are. They all seem to be screwed up and wrong at the same time. But so am I! I’ve just been as fucked up and confused as THEY are. They and I have some differences, yes. But we also have quite a lot of similarities.

I shouldn’t be angry why people can’t change for the better, but be angry why I can’t.

Fuck me. 

Letters From the Dalai Lama

Note: I’ve been reading The Art of Hapiness at Work by the Dalai Lama and H. Cutler. I will be posting some reflections/”AHA!” moments here for the next few days.

“So when these challenges come, you should welcome them, embrace them willingly, and see them as a way to develop yourself, to prosper, to ultimately achieve a greater sense of well being and hapiness. Challenges can have this positive purpose, this benefit.”

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

My Master challenged me the other day. She wanted me to do things that I thought was impossible. Reluctantly, I agreed to her wishes. At first, I was pretty much fuming at the seams. Then I read the quote above.

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Tagged!!!

I’ve been tagged by : Thao!

Here we go!

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Swimming in White Dust

Looks at this blank space

Gives me the highs and the blow

In your hands slither. 

In the Fence of T

Well, well, well!

I have just been included in a review of sorts by a blogger with the name of: shoe sultan

And I quote:

“Her comment box is full of people of a similar disposition, a similar fragrance for the lyrical. They have magnificent names like ‘Zofo The Hermit of Wandering Thought’, ‘grumblefish, ‘monster spank’ and ‘The Taorist’. Names I presume their parents didn’t swaddle them with, but ones with which I am sure they are comfortable. They agree with her, completely with devotion unmatched, each sharing their own paragraph about love or lust or loss. All expressed very poetically mind, conjuring up spirits and crashing oceans, but never revealing themselves totally but for half-truths and amorphous silhouettes. They define themselves by being indefinite, unable to commit to a figure or character suitable to their lofty aspirations, or inspirations.”

Ok. Now I’m somewhat pissed.  

First off, in defense of my friend, is not an elitist snob. Second, with a blog named “Red Shoe Diaries” do you really expect us to treat you seriously?

Who reviews you? 

Falling Into the Central Canal

Yep.

I’m going to give up the ghost of blogger.com.

I’ve left my old blog for this one.

Why the fuck move from an established blogging platform to a new and untested one?

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