How to Get It Off You

Push reset. That's the way to undo all the goo. But the button isn't always so simple to find. To begin to find it, one must become honest, to the point of self-scrutiny (by that I don't mean merciless self-scrutiny or scrupulosity, that kind of personal assessment that just always only hurts, but the other kind that is a little more flexible and negotiable and forgiving, considering that we're human and stinkers at core). Undoing the goo takes a kind of noble pursuit, a yearning to do and be good (or at least better) which same yearning we then drag kicking & screaming from the outer-limits of our overly temporal existence, into the willing circle).

De-sliming takes not just not doing what is wrong and learning to avoid its traps -- but also doing right consistently -- which takes a decent backbone as well as discernment, which, of course, is part of the cost of sucking-up, and reason why (dimunition of which) we get our slime on in the first place.

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