The Game I Refuse to Play

From the moment we enter this world, we are handed a system of choices.

I was not born to be your peer, so get off my dock. -Wolf Witman

A or B. Yes or No.

On or Off.

Left or Right.

Pick a side.

Pick a team.

Pick a belief.

Pick a label.

Everything is structured like a game.

But one day I stopped and asked the question no one seems to ask:

What game?

What are the rules?

And who decided we had to play it?

They call it “the game of life.”

Most people think the goal is to win.

More money.

More status.

More attention.

More power.

Like a plastic pin in a toy car moving around a board — racing everyone else, believing that beating the next man somehow means you’ve won.

But that game never made sense to me.

So I did something unexpected.

I stepped back.

I watched.

And when you watch long enough… something strange happens.

You start seeing the patterns.

You see the traps.

You see the manipulation.

You see the fears projected on every glowing screen designed to keep the players moving exactly where they’re told.

That’s when the realization hits.

Maybe we were never meant to play the game at all.

Maybe the only way to beat the game…

is to refuse to play it.

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Beyond Good and Evil

Most of the world is obsessed with another false choice:

Good or Bad.

But both of those are still trapped in ego.

One person’s good is another person’s evil.

Both sides scream.

Both sides judge.

Both sides believe they’re right.

And the machine keeps turning.

But there is something higher than both.

LOVE.

Love is not weakness.

Love is not submission.

Love is creation.

Love is protection.

Love builds families, communities, and legacies.

And love also defends them.

If someone threatens the people I love, I will not hesitate to bring hellfire upon the threat.

That doesn’t make me evil.

That makes me LOVE.

Because love protects what it creates.

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The Witness

I am many things.

I am a lover.

I am a fighter.

I am a witness.

I have lived.

I have watched.

And I have paid attention.

When you pay attention long enough, you begin to see the truth behind the masks people wear.

Some people are not who they pretend to be.

And once you see it…

You cannot unsee it.

If I no longer walk beside you, it is not hatred.

It is clarity.

Because heroes do not run with cowards.

And wolves do not travel with sheep pretending to be wolves.

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The Wolf’s Law

What you think of me means very little.

I refuse to be judged by lesser men.

I was not born to be your peer.

So if my path offends you…

get the flock off my dock.

I am not here to win your game.

I am here to walk my path.

And that path is simple.

Truth.

Love.

Freedom.

The rest of the world can keep playing their game.

I will be watching.

— Wolf Witman Patron Saint of Fuck Around and Find Out