How To Keep Living

HOW TO KEEP LIVING:

a 31-year-manifesto

by (Living) Peachy Death, 2024

1. Ice cream with rainbow sprinkles always.  Get the sprinkles always.  The colour makes it better.  The colour brightens up your mood.

2. Mercy Always.  For animals + humans.

3. Compassion Always.  For animals + humans.

4. Believe in the good of humanity always.  Believe that Goodness is possible always.

5. Change is always possible.  At any point.  “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

6. Learn as much as you can, always, about the world around you.  Form your own opinions.  Believe in your conscience and in the validity of your own thoughts.

7. Always stand up for and do what you believe is Right.  You are the living example.  You are not a hypocrite, and you will lead with truth.  Do the Next Right Thing always.

8. Good intentions only, always.  It simply isn’t ever worth negativity at anyone’s expense.

9. Listen to good music, always.  Keep music playing always.  Feel it in your bones.

10. Find and engage in as many experiences as you can that you know have the potential to fundamentally change your Spirit, your Self, your Person.  Engage in them fully and often.

11. Allow yourself to weep in public.  Allow yourself to weep with witnesses.

12. Travel at any opportunity; travel often.  Don’t lose sight of your life back home, but you should see the country and the world around you.  Keep your finger on the pulse.

13. See and hear live performance.  You are an artist with your own emotional experience.

14. See your loved ones whenever, wherever you can, whenever you are able to.  If even in another country, if even for an hour.

15. Help the animal always.  Rescue the animal always.  Save the animal always.  Show mercy and compassion to animals always, in all ways.

16. You should keep on hand as many stickers as you’d like.  They’ll bolster your spirits.

17. Surround yourself with your favourite things – your favourite colours, your favourite sounds, your favourite lights, your favourite sensations.  You deserve to live with things you love.

18. Create your home and life in ways that honour and cherish what Childe You™ would have wanted.

19. Listen to good music always.

20. Document your life for yourself, in writing.  Keep your thoughts alive on paper.  You are the keeper of your own journey.

21. Get a Polaroid or other instant camera.  For your own sake, and for everyone around you.

22. Let yourself have the treat, always.  You deserve it and you never had to earn it.

23. Let yourself do fun things.  Let yourself have and engage in a fun experience.

24. Keep a collection of your own stories – this will become your reputation, your legacy, your party trick.  You are your own storyteller.

25. Listen to WILD GOD by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.  Listen many times; loud enough that you feel it.  Let it change your life.

26. Trust your Inner Knowing.  You are the only one who knows what’s Right for You.  Trust the validity of your thoughts and your feelings.  Trust the validity of your emotions and your opinions.  Trust the validity of your own perspective.

27. See the Magick in the Living Moment – see the Magick in the world around you.  Allow yourself to take in every moment – this is the human experience.

28. Know that Magick lies within you.  Once you allow yourself to feel your own Magick, the entire world opens up.  Things can get better, and they do if you let them.  It is always the Right Time to Let Yourself Live.

29.  Accept love, magnificence, and beauty when they are offered.  Accept miracles, accept angels, accept that life changes and allow yourself to move through it.  Accept the gifts that keep your spirit alive.

30. Laugh loudly, laugh often, laugh deep down into your soul.  “Keep laughing – it helps one survive the absurdity of it all.”

31. Believe In Your Vision.

Believe in Your Vision.

Believe in Your Vision.