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Ideas are everything. I don’t mean that in the “everything is a product of ideas” sense, I mean it in the sense that the process of creating ideas is inherently human, and I think it is an entirely responsible decision to turn your back on those who make a conscious effort to shut down that little ember we’re all born with, that thing in your chest that pulls you toward creating something, anything, to be expressive through song or dance or math or words or science, to say that this world’s not enough, not complete, until you’ve added your thing, whatever that is to it.

Even if people don’t know what that thing is, I’ve got no place for the people who don’t get that not creating, not thinking is the equivalent of death, that retreating into the safe chrysalis of routine and willingly accepting “sameness” is throwing water onto the spark that not only makes you human, but makes you an interesting human, the type of person that draws others in and can turn something that has no right to be anything other than mundane into the type of life-altering experience that results in, if not the great American novel, at least the types of stories that get exchanged the next day without the use of words, because it was awesome enough all anyone needs is a glance.

So. Yeah. Ideas are good.