There's a meme floating around at the moment that suggests that some of us are perhaps deluding ourselves. Ha! But also that we must often recognise and embrace that delusion in order to simply make it through our day/job/yoghurt/paintball session.
But that's OK too: because you can bet that no matter how much faith you put in the light faintly emanating from the tiny, dancing candlelight—a flickering flame that we all once called "hope"—that lays somewhere up ahead (not really) in the dark; far o'er yonder down a long road hemmed in by the tangled branches of disappointment, potholes of mediocrity and closed toll booths of inevitable mental decay, loss of loved ones and the diseased petals of a deeply unfulfilled and ultimately lonely life, someone somewhere is briefly snorting at the pure distillation of your existence cooked up in a two minute Photoshop session over the last vapours of a Monster Energy Drink.
And in turn, your life's meme shall be gathered up like the crisp pages of a nice person's newly-bound third-quarter report, dropped somewhere outside an Officeworks and returned to the owners grateful hands (reception) by the legion of bystanders (ghosts of loved ones, returning now, here, and always, across all of time) spilling out from the Subway window counter next door (black bugs bursting from the internet).
"And the www doth grow heavier yet." - A carbon scientist.
According to
Know Your Meme, What My Friends Think I Do / What I Do one was started by artist Garnet Hertz "via his Facebook page on February 2nd, 2012. The chart summarised various preconceived notions and generalisations that are associated with being a contemporary artist."
Hertz for Mayor. See his initial contribution below and click through the gallery above for more devastating truths.
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