MAG ISA

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Chapter9_Page14

kyupol

on May 7, 2009

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Rant of the Day
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My brother whose in high school has been complaining lately about how he's not among the popular kids. You know, the usual stuff among teenagers who tend to be too pre-occupied on being popular rather than their studies.

I'm not bashing teens. I was once a teenager. And I was once pre-occupied with that pointless bullshit about being popular and fitting in and losing my virginity (as if losing virginity will magically transform me into superman) and all that. And it only made me miserable and angry. And empty inside. It made me only want to kill myself. It only made my life a living hell. If you're one of those people who believe that hell is a state of mind, sure enough… thinking about being popular only made me go to hell.

So I told him that life isn't all about being popular. Popularity is neither a good or a bad thing. Popularity is just a SIDE EFFECT. Frankly, I'm not into doing webcomics because of a need to be popular. I'd still be doing this even if I only got one or two people reading my stuff. It was that way during the early days when I just had a geocities website and I'm lucky if I get one fanmail in two months.

I told him that the purpose of life is soul evolution. Until it comes to a point where you don't need a physical body because a physical body is limited, as demonstrated by its susceptibility to illness and its need to die after usually a few decades.

And you contribute to the evolution of your soul through prayer, meditation, doing good to others, and staying away from drugs that do nothing but destroy your body and soul.

Thats all you need to be concerned about. Instead of all this Madison Avenue bullcrap and all this decadent culture that is there to make you feel inadequate.

You are NOT inadequate unless you say so. Look in the mirror. That is a wonderful spiritual being. And that is your savior.

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@JustNoPoint - nothing is "meant to be". Sorry but I don't believe in fate and nothing is set in stone.
Anyway, I think I've decided to merge the Brood Knight storyline into MAG-ISA. I'd leave it at that.

@SarahN, ghostrunner, croxtonhas, trevoramueller, LanceDanger, Senretsu - thanks for commenting.

@Walrus - the faces are scratched out because if you've read BK[Shattered Hate], Claudita's memories were tampered with. She can probably remember fragments of it but not all of it.

@Jonko - glad you liked that.

@magickmaker - this comic updates twice a week. So its not alot of catching up to do.

@krisikas - sounds like a good answer. But that's not exactly Claudita's character. :)

@Peipei - In theory, you have to train yourself to be ALONE. Cut off contact with all your friends and family for one week. And see what happens.

@Warpedwenger - Coast to Coast is a good source of comic ideas if you ask me.