FEELING DELIGHTFULLY UNHINGED IS A RARE BLESSING.

WATCHING YOURSELF DELICATELY SLIP IN AND OUT OF CONTROL AND DO SO WITH A WARM, UNTAINTED SMILE, WILL REMIND YOU OF CHILDHOOD, WHEN YOU WERE A LIQUID VESSEL OF PURE UNADULTERATED WONDER. 

REMIND YOURSELF THAT WE ARE NOT RIGID ONTOLOGICAL CUBES. 

“LOSING YOURSELF” WILL PROBABLY BRING YOU CLOSER TO YOUR REAL SELF.

FOR A SPLIT-SECOND YOU MIGHT BECOME CRITICAL OF YOUR NEWFOUND DISPOSITION, BUT THAT FEELING WILL BE IMMEDIATELY CRUSHED BY THE SIGHT OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS. 

YOU WILL SMILE IN PURE AMAZEMENT THAT THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE YOU WHOLE.

YOU WILL SMILE THAT BY CHANCE YOUR LIFE’S ARC BECAME A CONDUIT THROUGH WHICH THESE MESMERIZINGLY COMPLEX, INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE BECAME CORE FACETS OF YOUR LIFE AND IDENTITY.

YOU WILL SMILE.

YOU WILL NOT QUESTION.

SMILING MIGHT BE THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE ENEMY. 

OBLIVIOUSNESS TO YOUR ENEMY’S PENETRATING GLARE, OR THEIR CONFUSION ABOUT YOU, MAY PROVOKE IN THEM A DEEP, INCOMMENSURATE FEELING OF POWERLESSNESS.

THEIR ATTEMPTS TO DISTRACT YOU WITH STARES ARE MADE IRRELEVANT BY YOUR LACK OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THEIR INTENTS, AND YOUR DOG-LIKE FIXATION ON THE BEAUTY OF THESE VESSELS OF LOVE AND WONDER—YOUR FRIENDS—BOUNCING LIKE PARTICLES WITHIN EMERALD WALLS. 

THE IDEA OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN, THAT THERE’S SOMETHING INNATE “TO THIS,” WILL SEEM FAR TOO CONSIDERATE, WHERE RANDOM DESIGN WILL INSPIRE YOU WITH SO MUCH MORE AMUSEMENT.

THE POSSIBILITIES WILL SEEM ENDLESS.

YOU WILL BE SLIPPING IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS, NOT SOLELY DUE TO ALCOHOL OR DRUGS, BUT BY THE FURY OF THE INCANDESCENT, EVER-EVOLVING PRESENT.

YOU MAY NOW SAVOR HOW UNHINGING YOURSELF FROM PRESSURE AND PAIN MAY LOCK YOU INTO A NEW REALM OF MESMERIC APPRECIATION FOR THE GRAND MINUTIAE OF THE RANDOM DAY—HOW TO FASTEN INTO AN ENTIRELY NEW WORLD.

YOU WILL FEEL WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE, FOR ONCE, IF ONLY TEMPORARILY, AT EASE.