Better Bad than Worthless

Nobody wants to be a bad guy, right? But there’s something worse than being bad. There’s being worthless. Think of child molesters and drug addicts, the most worthless of all. They aren’t just bad, they’ve taken bad to a whole ‘nother level and become inherently worthless. They’re the poison in the soup. And they’re not the only ones, either. There are just as many worthless ‘good’ guys out there too. They who may not be rapin babies or smokin meth, but who are just as worthless in the world. They’re not the poison in the soup, but they’re at least a fly or a hair or something else that you need to take out of the soup. They’re neither good nor bad, these worthless individuals. They occupy time and space for a glimmer of a moment and then they’re gone having done nothing of any lasting value in their lives. It would be better to be either good or bad than to be worthless, because both good guys and bad guys at least have value. They leave a mark. They’re necessary to the Universal Mechanism.

But it’s not easy to be necessary. That’s why the worthless outnumber the necessary by such a large margin, because it’s so damn easy to watch, and it requires so much effort to act. How do you measure your worth? Do you contribute to society? Do you really think that matters? It doesn’t. Not until you contribute to the Universal Mechanism can you be said to have any worth at all. One way or the other, you must have value. You must be necessary, and to be necessary, to have value, you must act, react and interact. You must become a cog in the wheel that turns the chain of the Universal Mechanism. Otherwise you’re just a link in the chain that rides the cogs, that sits back and lets the cogs move you where they may, around and around, aimless.

Only the cogs have power, and I’m not talking about power in society or over another person, anyone can have that–I’m talking about true power, as a necessary soul with value. Turn the system, keep the wheels spinning. Run it up, keep it going. Make your mark. Be necessary. Don’t be worthless.

If you have any question about your worth, analyze yourself. Do you take matters into your own hands? Mold the world around you to suit you? Do you react when acted upon? Never do anything that you will regret, even if it means dying. Walk upright, be forceful, assured. Don’t let the cogs turn you: be the cog yourself. Make your world fit your design, and always, always look good doing it.

Don’t be a slave to anything. If you’re a slave to anything at all you risk everything. You become just another link in the chain, letting the cogs turn you. Master your own reality. Evolve. Burn everything that owns you, even if its your own emotions you’re burning. Take care of them. Set yourself free. Be relevant. Be necessary. Your uncontrollable urges, you’ll find, are very controllable after all. Control them. Master them. Walk. Talk. Be.

There’s a morally ambiguous line between good and bad. What’s good to one person might be evil to the next. Like televangelists, or politicians. But there’s no ambiguity about worthlessness.

Why am I bringing this up? Because I’m stuck in a rut of worthlessness. I’m cruising along on a chain, begging for scraps and letting my destiny be decided by others. It’s time to master my reality and become a cog again. It’s time to act, and to hell with the consequences.