Late Night Fiction It’s all in your mind

Life is a bitch ..or is it?

These are possibly my most favorite lyrics of all time. From Daylight by Aesop Rock:

Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman

You only call her a bitch because she won't let you get that pussy

Maybe she didn't feel ya'll shared any similar interests

Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess

What do these few lines mean? Well that's up to anyone's interpretation but in mine, life is beautiful. The first line says it all. But after that, it's really about how most people blame things on "life" just because they can't have their way. They use it as a justified (in their mind) argument as to why things are going wrong for them and why they just can't be happy (of course it's not them). Which brings me to the last two lines, which says maybe the reason things aren't working out for you is because you can't even be happy with yourself. Or you can't even learn to play along with the situation you're in long enough to even get your way. A bit of stubbornness? And you two not sharing any similar interests is showing that your resistance to any kind of change is causing life to turn its back on you because it simply cannot coincide with your plans or desires.

And if you ask me, that is what life is all about. It's the one thing in your life that you are encompassed in and forced to deal with on a daily basis. However, life differs from your life in that it is static. It doesn't change. It is there, and things happen a certain way, but they simply don't change. It doesn't even matter if you view it as beautiful or not; it's simply a force that, as much as you'd love to, you can't change. But the beauty of being a person and having your life separate from life itself is that yours is dynamic. You have every power to make any kind of change at all in it. And that is why people who blame "life" have no reason to complain about how much of a "bitch" it is. Even though it may be hard to know where to start, everyone has the ability and could have the will to make a change in their life.