I agree in total. What sucks in our country is that we teach the youth that they can obtain anything they want, if they put their minds to it. Not true. The reality is, they can achieve only so much because some things are just not obtainable. These "things" differ based on individual life environments, status of job, character values, morals, etc...the list goes on. I call it the Cinderella Syndrome. Kids, both male and female, are told that the ideal is to get married to the perfect person, as in the story books. As we find out, this is just bull shit. No knight in shinning armor will be coming, no woman who is the perfect female exists, and we certainly won't all live in castles happily ever after.

I also have a strong dislike for people selling that all these are a reality, and that they are obtainable, when there isn't any way that's possible. What we need to do is accept that we can make goals for ourselves, but those goals have to realistic and within our reach. All Ray is doing is making himself rich off of the dreamers--he makes his dreams come true by selling false hope, preying on the weak minded and unrealistic. It's quite sad.

What we need to do is let people learn and understand their own limitations through trial and error. We don't need to buy another book to tell us what we should do or not do. We need to listen to ourselves more. Our intuition is a powerful thing, and no amount of money can change that.

This makes me very excited. The literary aspect of Fight Club is nothing like the movie, in the sense that the author, Chuck Palahniuk, didn't mean for us to make an entire conscious life idea from it. He just wanted to point out the errors of people's ways. He did that well. Personal development, for me, is about bucking the concepts of society, cutting through the trash, and really looking into ourselves for what we really are about. To listen to the community, we will be stereotyped, and I don't like that. For whatever reason, people seem to need those labels to make them feel real. I do everything I can to prevent myself from falling into the "plan" of society ideas, and thus, though, I think I've created my own habitual societal idea...it's frustrating. I don't like having society make me WHO I am supposed to be. I refuse to have kids. People tell me all the time that I am nutters for that. "Isn't your biological clock ticking?" No. It isn't. I don't want that responsibility. I like being on my own, doing what I want to do in life. But see, this is not normal by societal law. So, I struggle. I fight the good fight, wanting to be more like Tyler Durden, but I know that's too extreme. There has to be a balance. It's finding that balance that I seek in my own personal development. I hope that through this blog, we will all come away with knowing something more about ourselves...again, I am excited to talk about the realities of Personal Development. Thank you for letting me be a part of that.