BAM! YOUR BORN! Its your first experience of life, beautiful life, that thing we all cherish and adore so much, the essence of what we are! Now, for the first time ever, your experiencing it, life, and your in a small room, with flickering fluorescent lighting, in a huge building full of long off-white corridors, a hospital. A day passes, two days pass, and you start to think to yourself, is this it? Is this the reality that I must now find the quint-essential meaning of my existence in? But suddenly, you realise, its not, because now, your being pushed through that long off-white corridor, and you can see a light at the end of it, a glistening divine light; and for the first time, it isn't flickering and fluorescent. You then permeate this light, it hits you and it feels great, you breath the air, and it feels great, and your feeling like, thank God I'm not in that fucking box any more... Alas, a child must learn and learn they must, sit in your box and learn to be a box, long corridors and boxes – nursery, school, college, university, work institutions, the care home, the hospital. Is life really just one fucking long corridor of stepping in line in passage to the next corridor? Lets hope not.

You know what I think about this? Its fucking weird. Life is such a beautiful thing to behold, and we train our spouse to live inside boxes, and in cases when they are not very good at doing that, we analyse them, diagnose them, medicate them, circumvent them. Maybe....just maybe, the human condition exhibits a far wider condition than that, that is proposed by the curriculum and structure of society that we “live” by. Perhaps there is nothing wrong with these children, perhaps there is something wrong with the idea of living life inside a fucking box? Am I being stupid? Or is this fucking weird? My peers think I'm being stupid, and consequently have proposed a steady routine of medicating whilst inside a multitude of boxes.

As someone “diagnosed” with the “illness” of “neuro-divergence” and medicated for it, I feel like I can understand how these paradigms of education and living may have failed me more than I failed them, and they continue to operate under such guise. Just because its normal, doesn't make it right, all knowledge is provisional and we must seek greater understanding for ourselves both collectively and individually and this can be achieved.

Id like to make a point, there are many great people within the educational sector and, ultimately, I feel that the majority of peoples hearts are in the right place..but are their minds? We follow the paradigms of institutions, that have no heart, no brain, no soul, they have a hive mind. Many pieces of a puzzle collectively organising itself to paint a picture, but what image do you see when you piece that puzzle together? I know what I see, and I know what I don't like, that's why I'm writing this article. I am a human being, I think, I feel and I live, I don't want to just be a civilian cog in the empirical machine of a dystopian society, and I want to be treated like the human being I am. Innately, every individual has a unique set of characteristics and skills that can be integrated and valued within society and the complexity of human narrative that we live our lives by. However, if we train and teach our children to live and die by the box, they will live and die by the box, and some of us, simply, aren't meant to be boxes. Its no wonder that the majority of people in our population are content going to the office for a 9-5 to follow it up with sitting in a box binge watching netflix, its not netflix and chill, its netflix and pill, because the way that I see it, is this is basically a state of conscious sedation.

Get out, out into the world, get out into the sun, get out into the air, get out into the water, get out into nature, you were born in this world, and this world is for you to experience, meet people, talk to them, learn all the ways that nature has of creating. We spent the first sixteen years of our lives absorbing the ideological nature of culture, then when we graduated, we spent the next 50+ years absorbing the cultural ideals of netflix; wondering why people don't think and act the way that they do. Spend a total of five minutes looking up mental health statistics, the volume of the population being treated with medication for their emotional and conscious disposition, its not about fixing people to a system that makes people depressed, its about fixing the system so that we're not all living and abiding by rules, regulations and ideologies that make us want to kill ourselves.

Truly yours,

Mirror Man