(5) MIKABOSHI CANON

5 - Change

For years I chased wealth, fame. Something,

something in me yearned to be heard. To

have everything I saw other people have,

yet every time I came close, every time

the chance was there, I couldn't bring

myself to take it.

There was this voice deep inside of me

that knew, absolutely knew that it was

all wrong,

that my destiny lay elsewhere.

Yet I kept trying, pushing

an insatiable urge to be recognized.

Ceaseless creation of art, music, work,

work, work,

work, that I couldn't show to anyone in

case they found out. Then suddenly I

became rich beyond any sensible measure.

It was almost too easy.

Little did I know how easy and how

quickly it would also be taken away.

What does that matter?

Perhaps little.

But it allowed me to see that even when

presented with each of these things i'd

spent years attempting to claim, it just

did not feel right.

I did not feel anything

after a while, I came to my senses.

I see charts,

I see the race to dump first on other

people.

Survival of the quickest.

If you don't take profit someone else

will.

Sell

Sell,

buy back lower, build up people's hopes,

then sell again.

This is trading after all.

But what if it's not just trading?

What if the idea of a community pushing

back against the pressure we face every

day is what it was about all along.

We can create wealth

together,

and as it grows we can play these

at their own game.

Because after all, what are we trying to

achieve?

What is the end goal? Are we content with

how things have turned out as we wake

day in day out caught up in this cycle

crying out what am I doing here?

Everything we do is deliberate.

Every picture,

every word,

every piece of music that accompanies

this routine.

We just have to find a way.

Join the Mikaboshi,

and see the world for what it truly is.

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