Hardcore Johnny's Rules For Living

1. No situation is the same, so no rule will ever be text book and work exactly as prescribed. Every rule, bit of knowledge, or past experience should be used as a suggestion not an absolute and should be modified not forced to fit the situation.

1a. Most rules have a gray area built in (ex. rule 2) so ultimately you, not the rule must decide for yourself
1b. some rules will straight up conflict its up to you to figure out which one works in a particular situation!
2. Quote Jim Morrison "in life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do" this by far the second biggest rule I live by but if you took this a face value, you'd just have to do everything. The gray area lies in the negative. (ex. to smoke: "would you like A cigarette?" -would you regret not taking the cigarette or would you regret not taking the opportunity to turn it down?-) So broken down it means take risks and never live with regret.

3. No one's special!@#$! You're force fed this crap that you're special through most of grade school, only to find out as an adolescent your not. In fact, you're probably worse off then most. I think this more then anything is to blame for school shootings. One day you wake up and you realize you have no friends, your fat, pimply, and no one likes you. You're special so your problems are more important then every one else, and even though others around you may have problems yours are way more important 'cause you're special! The no ones special rule is in regards to your problems mainly. Your problems are not more important then mine and visa versa. So with this knowledge you now can grasp the following:

a. you're not alone
b. your as in much control as every one else
c. your problems aren't so bad as you thought
d. you are able to step out side and either deal with or fix said problem with greater ease
e. other people's problems also aren't so bad
f. others minor problems ARE MINORE! and you can help with greater ease

4. Just be your self is a load of crap! Most everything they taught in grade school in the late 80's/early to mid 90's was wrong. I blame Nancy Reagan and the sitcom, Different Strokes. Remember you're not special, so you are probably a 20 something year old still living with his parents who drinks a lot, still trying to hold on to some sort of dream of being an artist some how! Basically instead of just being yourself, make up this imaginary person that has all the qualities of some one you and every one you ever met would want to be friends with. Then do you god damnedest to become that person. You'll probably never get there, but life is a road not a destination (see rule 5).

5. Life is a road not a destination. Goals are fine and good, but a goal unachieved doesn't mean a failed life as long as you had a fun journey.

6. "Greed is good!"- The movie Wall Street- If you want something take it. Take it however you can get it, and don't ever feel bad about it (see life rule 2).

7. People are people and assholes are assholes. What this means is every human on the planet is genetically 99.6% the same (will look up actual statistic later but very close from what I understand). So it's basically absurd to hate some one because of race religion creed, or sexual orientation for that matter. However, there seems to be this genetic disorder called asshole, everyone knows a few and they're pretty well spread out over all demographics.


ex.1- republicans like to party as much as any one republicans are just people no reason to hate. Then you have the "moral majority" a group of fascists who in the 80's led one of the biggest campaigns against free speech and just about everything the constitution stands for prior to the reign of Emperor Bush II... ass holes!ex.2a- I'm in a bar located New York's renowned east village on a date hanging around "mixed company" and another group of people wanted to sit, so we offered to share a table in the cramped bar. After talking to the man next to me for a few minutes he tells me "I think you're cute", I told him "sorry I don't swing that way," he apologized and we continued to enjoy the night...person

ex.2b- I worked at a video store and a guy asked every male employee there out in a weeks time then sadly after being beaten for doing something similar else where, he sent his mother into the video store with nude pictures of himself for us... asshole!