Self Responsibility and Your Happiness:
Pink Punk Pony Calls Life to Get Some Answers

From the Diary of Pink Punk Pony (on Self Responsibility)

Dear Diary,
Today I have read yet another self help / personal development / self improvement book, this one dealing with self responsibility and its relation to happiness, and now I am getting pretty gorram tired of reading lines that go like this:

'You are a magnificent creator, you create your own reality, and you can create it any way you want, but you have to assume self responsibility ...'

I don’t know how many times I have read that, or something just like it. But no matter how many times I read it, my life still sucks!

So, seeing how Fat Fish was able to do an interview with the universe, I think I want a serious talk with life itself. Don’t ask me to explain the difference between life and the universe, because I can’t, but since my life sucks, my beef is with life. I wanna get the true low down on all this self responsibility crap and most particularly the being-happy thing. It really doesn't compute when I look at my own life.

So, you know what I am gonna do? I’m gonna get right on the phone and called up life!

LIFE: Hello, Life speaking.

PPP : Hi, this is Pink Punk Pony. I wanna ask you a few questions.

LIFE: Well, I am just doing the laundry, so go ahead, I welcome the distraction.

PPP: It’s like this: I just read another self help book, and my life still sucks.

LIFE: Okay. How can I assist you with that?

PPP: You can tell me what to do.

LIFE: Well all right.

Here is what you do:

a) Take your consciousness, and use it to locate the area of your life which sucks ...

PPP: That’s easy. It’s pretty much all of them.

LIFE: We will take an example, then. Which area sucks the most?

PPP: My love life. And sex. And my social life. And money. And work. And ...

LIFE: Let us stick with just one example. Your love life, right?

PPP: Yeah, it sucks.

LIFE: Why?

PPP: Well, because I seriously need a hot stallion with a great big ...

LIFE: ... Right.

PPP: So how do I fix that?

LIFE: That would be point b) You need to look at your way of thinking, your beliefs.

PPP: What? I thought you were going to tell me to go out, meet new people, seek greener pastures or something!

LIFE: Well, that is always good idea. But first check out your beliefs about all the pertinent subjects: Yourself, life, love, sex, stallions and how to act in relation to these things. After that, you move to point c) and assume self responsibility ...

PPP (interrupting): Damn, that sounds like a lot of work!

LIFE: Well, it can be.

PPP: I don’t wanna do a lot of hard work. I don’t wanna assume self responsibility, nor any other kind of responsibility. It’s probably not gonna to do any good, anyway. I just want some help with finding a hot stallion with a huge ...

LIFE: ... Yes. Quite. Well, you don’t need any help with that, you can do that all on your own.

In fact, you don’t need any help with any part of your life, you are completely equipped to deal with being a pony and for assuming self responsibility. It’s all part of the equine life package.

PPP: Well, that sure ain’t how it feels!

LIFE: It may not feel that way, but it is the truth. Whatever you are ... in your case a pony ... the life package assures that you are fully equipped to deal with it - it includes love, consciousness, free will, a physical body, the ability to take self responsibility, the ability to change, et cetera, et cetera. Everything you need. Your problem is not in the hardware, it’s in the software.

PPP: Now you’ve lost me.

LIFE: The hardware: Your life, your love, your consciousness, your physical body, your soul and your free will.

The software: Your beliefs, thoughts, feelings, needs and actions.

Your problem is in the software.

It is always in the software.

PPP: No, it’s not. My problem is with my life. Which sucks. And maybe with my body, too. I’d like to have some longer and pinker legs. And maybe some bigger titties, as well.

LIFE: You believe that your problem is with your life and your body?

PPP: Yes.

LIFE: Then your problem is your belief.

PPP: You’ve gotta be kidding me!

LIFE: No, I’m not kidding you. Your hardware is pretty much a given. It can be bent, stretched and changed somewhat, but as a rule your hardware sets the parameters within which your software functions. And I promise you: Your hardware works. I can prove it, too: If any part of your hardware didn’t work properly, you wouldn’t even exist!

PPP: You are saying that if my life, my body, my soul and my free will exist, then that is proof that they work?

LIFE: Yes, indeed.

PPP: Then by the same logic: If my beliefs, or software as you call them, exist, that is proof that they work properly, too.

LIFE: Yes, that is correct. However, your software is 100% your own, personal creation ... as are the results you get with them. Now, you may not like the results you are getting ...

PPP: I sure don’t!

LIFE: ... but that simply means that you need to change your personally created software.

PPP: This sucks!

LIFE: I am sorry you think so. That is a rather negative belief. Maybe you should consider changing it?

PPP: This REALLY sucks!

LIFE: Oh. Well, anyway, just to let you know: If you change your beliefs, you change your results ... your life experience.

PPP: Okay. Fine. Whatever. Sorry to have wasted your time.

LIFE: Not at all. I exist to serve. Happy living to you!

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Well, that went well, don’t you think? Not only does my life suck, life itself tells me to get a life. Or fix the old one myself.

Assuming self responsibility, my pink behind!

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