Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for March 17, 2014
March 14, 2014
March 21, 2014
Transcript:
The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small... die small. It's the reductionist approach to life, if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, becasue they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. SAFE?! Life is always on the edge of death. Narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues.... and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn. -Sophie Scholl
Whew. What a way to wake up at 5:30 am. On the other hand, the chinese medecine way of looking at things is that if you are constantly angry, you are afflicted - overheating of the liver. That relentless anger shortens the life and makes things irritable, angry, impatient, unappreciative. I say take action, but why do we have to get a huge head of steam to take action? (Which I have done)….. Does she have to get really angry to take a first step - like get rid of her disgusting slacker of a husband / lover/ roommate? Sometimes the changes close to home are the hardest…) Anyway, thanks Gavin, for once again lifting the genre of comics up from the vapid and callow! …. (I work really, really hard as a massage theraspist to soothe peoples’ profound / dangerous levels of stress – so they can (choose &) fight their battles effectively… & enjoy life…) … Anyway, thnx again, cold shower dude!