Don’t do a lot of things. Don’t look to be busy all the time. Don’t want to be always busy and be seen by others as productive. Hit the stop on the treadmill and sit on it to read. Let anger drive you out of there. Before leaving, return the gym card to its owner. Play sports outdoors. Study a second language to soak up foreign literature. Dress up as a workbook. Let out a laugh when someone speaks of English as a hard skill. Go to a job interview and ask for fifty cents for each irregular verb you have pronounced.
Take a closer look at the mottled glass of the social elevator. Breathe in the rust that builds up on your walls. Feel the decay of those at the top. Look in the books for an answer: Llaneza, boy, don’t get too high that all affectation is bad. Think that things can be otherwise. Don’t let this become your breakfast mug motto. Draw a puzzled face as you visualize Will Smith’s nauseating and motivating message. Choose not only the color of the housing of your smartphone. Choose not only your favorite Netflix series. He acts like a would-be bourgeoisie and gets good grades. Ask the teachers questions, be hesitant, put your head down. Then he smiles mischievously. Separate knowledge from information. Look for the pat on the back of a few. Win many competitions and burn the board. Go to a running track and let everyone beat you. Sit on the ground and be beaten a second time. Volunteer and don’t put it on your resume. Don’t certify your goodness.
Walk through a crowd and look into the eyes of others. Look in your dark circles what makes you the same
Seek to believe in something. It scares nihilism. Be suspicious of the great truths and pay attention to the small truths. Place them in the empty stomach. Listen to your grandparents. Learn to be alone. Distinguish loneliness and isolation. You do not want the pupils of your followers to see the sunset for you. Don’t let algorithms capitalize on your privacy. Delete Instagram. Dress up in your workbook outfit again and go to a non-virtual costume ball. Take advantage of the gaps in the system and let aesthetic enjoyment make its way. Pay one euro and enjoy a Haydn play at the National Auditorium. Get on the tourist train of Zamora and see your city as something new, which is being done. Rediscover the language. Turn on the TV and watch the rottenness of political language. Turn off the TV. Run away from platitudes and clichés. Rehearse words.
Take a sheet of paper and cut it into four pieces. Write: meritocracy, productivity, future, heteronormativity. Set it on fire with a match. Say no to controlled subversion. Flee from escape spaces. Don’t seek to stand out in the hell of the same. Analyze and keep digging. Trust the goodness of some people. Hold them tight and get rid of precarious relationships. Abdicate communication through pre-made emoticons and symbols.
Walk through a crowd and look into the eyes of others. Look in their dark circles for what makes you the same. Be aware that you live in a consumer society. Smile, if you are comfortable. Talk it over with others if you feel the distress. Burn all the flags. Believe in the abolition of conflict. Become a disbeliever. If they ask you, answer with Rimbaud: Je est un autre. Be that other one. Speak for that other one. Offer these words to others. Don’t speak for your generation.
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