Ex(istentialism)ceed To Succeed

So I was thinking...

Excess is the only true teacher -- And the only true savior.
Look, everything in life amounts to bullshit. No matter what you do, when you look back on what you've done, it just doesn't mean really anything. Does it? What do you have in the end?
It's a tough lesson to learn, and I think the only way to really learn it is through excess. Excess in everything.

Once you've done something obsessively, to excess, and you look back at what you have to show for it; only then can you see that everything is the same -- Bullshit. Every joke ends in the same punch-line; and the joke is on you, sucka.

See, when you do something to excess, it requires that you sacrifice other things. (There's no such thing as a well-rounded individual; that just means you're deficient in everything! It also means you've chosen to not be great at anything at all. Way to go!) And only through sacrifice can value truly be found. Therein lies your redemption.
People sacrifice for God in order to be forgiven. In some places it's people or animals or things of ornamental value; in other places it's just time and effort. If sacrifice means you are forgiven, and excess begets sacrifice; then excess is the path to your salvation.

So, do something excessively (and hopefully be really good at it-- like drinking). Either way, when you get to the end of the line, all you'll have is the realization that you're lacking; but at least you're saved, brother.

So here's to excess in everything that you do - so that you might actually learn something about life, and be saved from it!


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now that ive recovered from the comatose state induced via computer contact high from your blurb, im gonna try to very briefly respond

i like the topic, i like the meat of the topic - but you really present it like a madman or a man on drugs (as joe p so aptly pointed out)

why does excess drive us? is it materialism? ego? self-actualization? (if you believe in that sort of thing, anyways)
maybe im focusing too much on the positives...there's also the idea of escape, via substance (which is awesome in excess)

by nature, anything we do in excess (for positive or negative reasons) deprives us of doing other things -- excess studying means less sleep, less tv, less gym time, less sex, etc...why do we do it? for self-improvement? generally no...its for ego and materialism and the hope to make excess cash, right?
oh im sorry, i guess im forgetting the .02% of people who go to school for self-improvement...but theyre not reading this b/c theyre in the library reading up on east tibetan philosphy, or sitting in starbucks listening to franz ferdinand (nevermind, those are pseudo-intellectuals, my bad)

i feel like im getting off topic, if there were a topic to begin with...this is all very existential, and we could probably write an entire book on excess and its utility, but i think you covered it in your madman rave, a la (insert historical madman)

does this get us then to ol chuck p's tenet of self-improvement is masturbation?

if we're all doing things to excess...and there's no point in any of it...we're just hamsters running on a wheel, right? "polishing the brass on the titanic," if you will?

so, at no point in my incoherent rambling did i even come close to addressing what you wrote (which was the initial intention) - i award me no points, and may god have mercy on my soul

time to "masturbate" at the gym, chuck p-style