Wanted

There’s a bounty on your head.  I’m sure you’re aware of this.

No need to worry, no panic is necessary.  You’re just wanted, alive or dead, that’s all.

I’m sure you’re on top of it, and I’m glad to see that you’re not letting it drag you down.  That’s good.  And don’t worry about them finding out where you are or anything.  They already know.

But they’ll never catch you.  They have unlimited resources to do so, and wouldn’t think twice about it, but you’re not bothering them enough right now for them to get too involved.  It’s all good, for the time being.

It’s nothing you did intentionally, nothing really attributable to a fault of your own or a poor choice made somewhere back there.  Rest easy.  It’s not a crime you’ve committed or a danger you’ve caused.  It’s you.

It’s just you.  You’re being yourself, and that bothers them.  They don’t like it, not one bit.  You’re safe today, they’re preoccupied with too many other big things to make a fuss about one little you at this time.  But that may not remain the case forever.

You’re different, see.  You’re not like they are.  You see through what they offer, and you want none of it.  You want none of it, and you’re willing to choose what you want instead.  You’re capable of seeing beyond the pretty lies they tell everyone, and you ignore them and provide an example for others to do the same.

Ooh, they hate that.

“They”, of course, being essentially the “powers that be”, the rule-makers, the big guys.  Title them what you prefer– the status quo, the government, the state of cultural acceptance… whatever.  There is a larger power of people that wants you to be like everyone else, wants you to conform and play nice — wants you to be a sheep.

They want this for you because it benefits them.  They want to keep the system moving as averagely and smoothly as possible.  Dissenters and individuals are uncomfortable to the big guys — they cause rifts in the straight line of mindless masses, of people who do as they’re told by buying the right products, accruing the right debt, and believing the right untruths.

As long as you resist by being an individual, by doing the opposite of what the head honchos want because you wish to be the captain of you own life, you are wanted.  No way around it.

It’s not so bad though.  You made a choice — freedom over normalcy, fulfillment over commonplace, leader over follower.

You made that choice through a series of choices, choices to be yourself in spite of what everyone else does, disregarding what you were taught and told, and paying no mind at all to the Sirens’ song of coercion and silence, of stupefied surrender and docile indoctrination.

You are who you are, in utter spite of who they tell you to be, and you will always be wanted because of it.

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