Then this page is for you! I am incorporating this page to give some advice and for some random reasons. Both will be addressed in the following bulleted list:

  • I have a strange affinity for bulleted lists.
  • My page is named ‘I’m Easy Because I’m Dead Inside’.
  • The name implies both a propensity to be easy and also dead inside.
  • The main search results that bring people to my page surprisingly enough have to do with these items.
  • Craig Owens isn’t in Chiodos anymore and that makes me sad.
  • I usually find it easier to block emotion than to risk feeling it.
  • Most people feel that way - or at least I think they do.
  • Just because they feel that way doesn’t mean they take the easy road all the time.
  • Life can be hard and when it is, I like to take the easy road because it is less hard.
  • I think other people feel that way, too.
  • The above few bullets really ought to have been a paragraph.
  • I like non sequiturs.
  • I feel like I relate to people when I write and sometimes they relate to me.
  • Those people might be zombies, but beggars can’t be choosers.
  • We are all beggars in one form or another.
  • Beggars have to inherently be easy about what they are begging for because they can’t be choosers.
  • Recognizing the deadness is the first step to coming back to life.
  • If you recognize anything, you can’t really be dead because your brain is working.
  • Emotions aren’t logical and also cannot be placed in pro/con lists.
  • Recognizing our own tiny contribution to the larger whole should be both humbling and awe inspiring.
  • Suggestions for betterment should always start on yourself and should radiate out by example instead of by unwanted advice or complaints.
  • We can *always* make ourselves better.
  • If we focus on ourselves, we notice other’s mistakes much less.
  • Average normal people don’t set out to hurt each other even when it seems like they do.
  • There are people who are not average.
  • Take care around ‘not’ average individuals who do harm with intent. They end up in jail more often than not.
  • The vast majority of people fall into my loose definition of average as used above.
  • Just because your boy/girlfriend hurt you doesn’t automatically mean they are a sociopath.
  • Always ask yourself what you could have done better and be honest about it.
  • I really vehemently believe that if you are honestly doing the things you are supposed to be doing, in the right ways, you will find more intrinsic happiness than by doing anything else.
  • No happiness is better than intrinsic natural happiness.
  • When you take the ‘high road’, things tend to work out for you in ways that you maybe wouldn’t have ever thought about before, but that are good for you.
  • Karma is a bitch (on the flip side of the ‘high road’ argument)
  • It’s always worth it to  see another day - even if it seems like it is only to watch the people that you don’t like run into unfortunate karmic events.
  • When it seems like that ^^^, life has a tendency to entertain you in ways you couldn’t have foreseen.
  • When life entertains you in those ways, you suddenly forget about watching those people or caring about their karmic events.
  • Writing always helps.
  • Always.
  • Eating brains only works for zombies in the movies. In real life, that gives you Mad Cow disease.
  • I put the ‘adorable’ in ’straight jacket’.
  • I still consider myself ‘normal’ according to my above description.
  • Get to know the night sky. There is something seriously therapeutic about Astronomy. No really.
  • Most people are self conscious about similar stupid crap as you. Chill out.
  • Judge not lest ye be PWNT.
  • Lead by example, not by assumption, because when you assume things you know what happens to U and ME.
  • Quit looking for extrinsic affirmation. You have what you need inside yourself. Screw everyone else… they can’t make you happy.
  • Only you can choose to ultimately make yourself happy.
  • Be a part of and apart from society. It’s a fine line, but being proficient at walking it will be beneficial to you and yours.
  • Being happy will benefit you and everyone else - even people you don’t directly know.
  • Turn your emotional clusterf*cks into something positive for yourself or for someone else. It’s not that hard.
  • Use wet wipes in the bathroom in place of toilet paper when it’s called for. It’s 2010. Clean up FFS.
  • Smell good. It’ll keep you happy as well as those around you. No really. Smell good.
  • Think for yourself… but do the research to support the opinions you come to. Don’t just make it up or let some douche bag pundit feed them to you.
  • Ask yourself the hard questions and answer them for yourself. You don’t need to tell anyone about the conclusions you came to, just really think them through honestly and objectively (preferably without the assistance of anything/one that isn’t firmly based in reality. You need to own your decisions and stand by them without being able to cop out on why you made them).
  • BAH. I’ll add more to this page when I get inspired. Links. Pictures. Posts. Whatever.