Fuck It!
Posted by Steve Munroe | Under Life, goals, happiness, thought innovatoin Monday Nov 3, 2008
Fuck It!
I like these two word a lot. I especially like the first word (who doesn’t?), but I like Fuck It in particular when they join forces - oh and I love it when they come with the exclamation mark!
I like Fuck It! because amongst other things Fuck It! represents an almighty letting go of what we had previously been clinging on to so tightly - typically in the face of overwhelming evidence that we are wrong about the Way Things Are. Notice I capitalised that last phrase, and I did so deliberately. It deserve capitalisation because The Way Things Are is pretty fucking fundamental. You can’t argue with The Way Things Are, it just is that way. Sure, things will change and the Way Things Are right now will become the way things were (deliberately uncapitalised), but the Way Things Are will still be, well, The Way Things Are! You had better get used to it, because it’s all you have to work with. Fuck It! can help you to see that - actually Fuck It! is pretty much all you can say when you do see that!
The other reason I like the phrase Fuck It! is because it represents a jumping into the unknown - in the sense of “Fuck It! I’m going to do it” (whatever ‘it’ may be to you). Fuck It! in both senses is an opening up to life and what it can show you. You might say Fuck It! to your job, Fuck It! to your relationship, Fuck It! to your worries or Fuck it! to your inhibitions. In fact you can say Fuck It! to just about anything, but its power is in the feeling that you get once you have let Fuck it! loose on your situation. It’s a powerful act of letting go - letting go of whatever it is that’s worrying you, a letting go of your fear, your anger or your sadness. Fuck it! is a loosening agent, Fuck it! unsticks you from what was sticking you. Fuck it! gets you moving and Fuck It! can embolden you to do something you never thought it was possible for you to do.
If you ever feel stuck in life, bored with your situation or stressed out by some idiot in your work or personal life, try just saying Fuck It! and use the energy that Fuck It! gives you to get up and do something about it!
I was going to write another paragraph, but Fuck It! I’m tired of this article now so I’m going to do something else.
- There are 23 Fuck Its! in this article, if you don’t like it well, Fuck It! I dont care! :-P (make that 24!)
This is exactly what I need it to overcome the awful last week experience that I had with some pseudo-friends. Thanks! I agree with you Fuck it!
Steve,
This is perhaps the single greatest blog post I’ve ever read. Kudos on a job well done.
PS - I should be working instead of reading this blog…oh well, fuck it.
I loved this article! And the paragraph about writing another paragraph cracked me up.
What you say here is so very true. It truly is a very liberating expression.
@Rob High praise indeed rob. Many thanks and I’m happy you like the blog
@Gavin, The Fuckit philosophy has definitely made a difference to my life and I think it has potential to do much more. I hope you get the same sense of freedom out of it that I’ve had.
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