From the mind of critic: “If we’re walking down the road minding our own business, and a bird shits on our shoulder, is it a sign of good luck for us, or the person that laughs at us when it happens? Is it a positive sign for us because something that doesn’t usually happen, and might have been a one in a million shit did? Is it positive for the person who got a cheap laugh, because it’s more than a cheap laugh, it’s the funniest damn thing they’ve ever seen, allowing them to view something they never thought they’d see face to face? Or is it positive for both the person shit on, and the witness because both were privy to an event that happens so rarely, it’s like some greater force looking right at them, and saying there’s a lot more to the world than meets the eye? The world is so big, so chaotic, and so filled with wonder, but at the same time it’s so small, so ordered, and so filled with routine. We can seem to be so grounded, yet still float around. Maybe we’re trying to find the right balance, so we discover what’s good, what’s bad, what’s real, what’s fake, what will tear us down, and what will build us up. Which makes finding that balance infinitely more difficult, because all those balance points, what’s good and builds us up won’t necessarily build somebody else up, and vice versa. The trial and error nature of life, ensures we live the evolutionary experience as we learn it. If we learn it without experiencing it, we’ll set ourselves back, and will have to work twice as hard to get back where we should be. It can be done, but it makes us not want to put the work in because we have the knowledge, so why do we have to go through the motions? This can cause us to feel lost, because we understand our actions before we take them, and are only able to stop them sometimes when they’re detrimental. This can make us feel like we have no control and have no say, where we walk along amidst the chaos, fully aware it’s chaos. Then a bird comes along and shits on our shoulder, making us realize in no uncertain terms, we might be further ahead or behind in our journey, we might even be so open to it we feel feel every second, but there is always a big beautiful world out there that will continually surprise us. Good luck and positivity will find us and lift us up if we’re open, but only when we realize how it effects everyone around us as well” 🙂