clichés

it's astounding that pretty much all of the things i'm beginning to realize (and writing here), are in fact clichés that have been repeated a billion times over. you know, the usual. be kind, don't hurt anybody. be nice to your friends and family, and enemies too, if possible. live in the present, cherish the moment. money is not everything. there are probably a dozen others anyone could rattle off any moment.

when do clichés become "real", rather than just meaningless and overused sound bites? why do they sometimes elicit some deep realizations, and other times they sound overused and annoying?

the karmic explanation is, we'll be ready when we're ready. which is not very satisfying.

this "realness" seems to be a function of how deeply entrenched these things are in our daily lives, and like most things, is largely a sliding gray-scale. it seems to be a combination of understanding how these clichés apply to different aspects of our lives, together with the level of self-awareness of our daily actions.

so, part of it returns to how willing we are to put our own lives under our own personal microscope.

hard.