I believe in being honest. Through your actions, words, and thoughts. Clarity and acceptance of the situation around you, and yourself. I believe shame is healthy and pride only in small doses. Humility and self analysis is just as important to the idea of honesty as not directly lying.
I believe it is okay to be proud of where you came from, though it is equally important to understand it is no more different or special than anywhere else. I believe facts should build pride and nostalgia is poison.
I believe you need destruction to grow. I believe you must pick yourself apart and discover your cancers in order to eradicate them and build yourself stronger. A lack of destruction stagnates growth. Ask any forest. This is impossible without real honesty. Everything comes back to honesty.
I believe in love as a magic in the world and I also believe in love as a full time career. Glamour fades and in youth we shy from the terrible work of maintaining love, despite it's long term value to our happiness and satisfaction. However, you need growth and of course honesty.
I believe there is no truth worth knowing. I have never been satisfied or pleased in any sense discovering truth.
I believe the bottom is a real place inside all of us and it requires more bravery to reach it than to get better. I believe in the strength of suicide and self destruction. I believe that those who call suicides cowards do not occupy the same emotional or spiritual spectrum. Further, that those who condemn suicides are slightly subhuman.
I believe that learning yourself should be a constant wheel turning inside you. Always questioning, always searching. I believe that once you stop and you "know" who you are, you become quicker to fail to see other perspectives, as well as failing to understand new emotions or struggles within yourself.
I believe that without authoritarian systems in place humans would continue to co-operate and grow, and that maintaining these systems only holds people back.
I believe disposable people exist and I believe most of us are among them. I believe we are bred to feed a minute portion of the population and I believe that if you don't see it, you deserve to be eaten by that minute portion.
I believe people who reach adulthood without passions are not real. I believe that I have loved many of them and that breaks my heart, because I'm not sure they were ever capable of loving in return.
I believe art is the pinnacle of human potential. The ability to express a knot of emotions within yourself and have it understood and felt within another living thing across centuries and continents is vastly more important to the human experience than any achievement of science, religion, or industry.
I believe that science is the closest second. I believe understanding the world around us separates us from the other animals, though it is a divide we must remember to balance carefully. Understanding nature matters, but removing ourselves from it is a slow death.
I believe in possibility. I believe we are possibly a sum of chance, or design. I believe we may be alone. I believe we may not be alone. I do not believe in a god, but I believe one or many to be possible. That is the first time I have let go of my staunch atheism in almost thirty years. Honesty.
I believe in holding doors. Smiling at strangers. I believe in lending a hand. I believe in being kind, despite the day you are having. Not for reward, not for recognition, but for the sake of others. I believe true selflessness should be among the goals of all of us, and if I were to be asked for the meaning of life, I would answer with that.
I believe in listening. Understanding, or at least attempting to. Letting go of ego, and becoming vulnerable for the sake of another. I believe it is often painful, however the end result of peace and serenity often makes up for it.
I believe sometimes, you just have to get something out, even if it isn't what you set out to say.
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