Spirit

On the wings of those forsaken by the everlasting will of triumph, there was but one who's power truly rivaled that of the gods! His name was unimportant as he said...

"Eternal happiness can only be measured by one's inherent ability to do good. Everything else is simply material. Love blinds, money corrupts, power shifts from hand to hand. The only true feelings come in the form of the art we make. And even those are misread, reinterpreted, and lost forever. The journey of life is laid out before us with so many forks the damn road looks like spaghetti. We should just put up a big reflective green sign in every delivery room in the world that says welcome to the spaghetti know as Life."

I think the hitchhikers guide had it right with the words Don't Panic! The fact that we go through life as it is, is bad enough. If you panic it's over. The world really needs to come together under a common goal of bettering the human race. I personally feel that the idea of global paranoia really hits it on the money. Why can we not all just agree to disagree. Chris Rock's character in the movie Dogma said it perfectly. He said we should all have ideas not beliefs. Ideas can be changed but people fight and die for beliefs. I just don't get it. Why would you fight for a belief? If you believe what would it matter what anybody else thought. Fighting for your freedom to believe is another matter entirely. So many religions so many beliefs. The one thing that always pops into MadBill's head is this. To anyone believing in a god or gods, Why would any all powerful, all knowing entity ever interfere. Why would it ever pass its ideas onto mere mortals. Even if there was a afterlife. Wouldn't it rather let you live your life and measure you out as a person at the end your turn. I would say that if you had any advanced knowledge it would tip the scales. I also find something very displeasing about a imaginary line of good and bad.
Life is what you make of it and if you place all of your faith blindly into a religion then that is your choice. What I would ask is that you never force your ideas onto anyone. If someone chooses to believe in something else or just not to believe in anything isn't that their choice... and how would it ever undermine what you believe?
Back to the dinner. To get from the spaghetti to the desert you have to to free yourself from all the bad juju. You have to be happy with yourself. Expressing ideas of progress and achieving goals set forth by yourself. I think a happy person does what they love. I am a artist. I work in a variety of mediums and always hope that someone will relate to my art. Not just like it, or want to buy it and put it on their wall. But really relate. We go through life with all it's ups and downs. I have made my art in the best of times and the worst of times and it all relates in the pieces I have created. It's history in the making. To be remembered is something we all aspire for and what better way that to make something that will last the test of time. To put your emotions out there for the world to see and understand is the first step and really allows release of pent up emotion.
Just being positive really helps. There are just so many different ways people try to be happy. I swear none of it works. Like I said you have to be happy with yourself. Nothing can make you happy. Pesonally I used to drink a lot as well as smoke pot. I thought I was releasing but really I was just hiding from reality. I allowed myself to be sucked into a fantasy and lost more than I can imagine in the process. Although I achieved so much on my stint of drugs and alcohol I just wonder what else I could have done if I wasn't out trying to get fucked up in my free time. I was making myself happy while I was fucked up, but as soon as the inebriation left I was worse off than before, not to mention all I wanted to do was get fucked up again! I mean excuse my language but this I a testament to how I lost almost ten years of my life to a addiction. I worry so much now. I can only imagine how many years I took off my life in a search for happiness that never came. I devoted my life to the shit and still find hints of it everywhere I look in my home. I just want to be free and happy for the rest of my life. I'll continue to make my art regardless of what people think. It makes me happy and that's all that matters! MadBill leaving my mark... Hope you like it!