A Life Through Fiction?

What sort of life is possible
when the popular understanding
is split by extremes; at one end
by fiction informed by a Therapy Culture
that we unknowingly misunderstand,
and which nobody could follow
because it magnifies suffering
for the sake of drama. At the other....
a humourless religious hagiography
that denies the complexity of life
through taking literally stories
about a past where life for nearly all
was as brutal as was materially poor,
and nothing like how it was described?

Do It Yourself?

For too long I have known the expression
'Those who can do, those who can't teach',
and disliked what goes unsaid in the phrase.
Disliked how by saying nothing it defines 'doing'
as doing for others, as if a person can't enjoy
contentment through self improvement in its own right.
It is that strict and unspoken division that has us
pleasing others poorly and displeasing ourselves
until we make ourselves ill, all as if mis-education
were the perpetual aim of every social system. 

The 'Absurd' Stage Of Life

is when you have the answers
to what you have set out as problems,
but all solutions seem null and void.
The saving grace is that compared
with your friends your lack of answers
to your questions are marginally better than theirs.

The Home Of The Open Question

This wine amphora is 8 foot in length and the entrance
is wide enough for a thin man to enter and leave with
 ease. This jar is typical of the sort lived in by
 the scandalous questioning philosopher
Diogenes of Sinope who believed morality is
 illustrated by actions, not theories or words.