i've been talking to Will lately.

i like to think i helped him out just now. people sometimes talk to me and sometimes it slips out that they feel shitty about something or other, usually relationship-wise.

i become the ultimate hippie
and say go with the flow
as if they were the words keeping me alive.

i've been a firm believer in going with the flow
for years. most of the time, it doesn't seem like it.
it just makes me feel like the turtle Squirt in Finding Nemo when he rides the
water current thingy

go with the flow puts my mind at ease in the sense that i lift all worry from my shoulders onto "the flow". i tend to feel like i have all control over my life and if i don't worry about it, i will fall apart.

going with the flow, or talking to God puts me at ease because i love thinking that all i have to do is wake up in the morning, do what i gotta do to make myself happy, and go to sleep at night.

the rest lies in the hands of the "flow" or God.

another thing i usually recommend to people is to do something creative. or do something you would see in a movie like Across The Universe where people live with cracked paint and no routines and everyone they meet on the street has a good heart.

find some grass to lay on, or find some grass to smoke. paint, write, watch movies with subtitles and vibrant colors where the characters lifestyles make you feel like the world is a damn beautiful place just as much as it is bad.

i also tend to say, because someone important once said it to me, that it is ok for you to feel really shitty because that means you can feel that good.