walking on water

"You're not crazy, the culture is crazy. If it seems insane to you that our culture is systematically dismantling the ecological infrastructure of the planet, yet we pay less attention to that than we do to professional sports (Go Mariners!), that's because it is insane. If it seems senseless to you that our culture values money and economic productivity over human and nonhuman lives, that's because it is senseless. If it seems crazy to you that most people spend most of their waking hours working jobs they'd rather not do, that's because it is crazy. There's nothing wrong with you for thinking these things. In fact it means you're still alive.

I wish also that someone would have told me- one hundred times if that was what it took for me to hear it- that it's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it. It's okay to not get a job. It's okay to never get a job. It's okay to find waht makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are."

-Derrick Jensen, from his book "walking on water"

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