Jen's Cuts

Hey guys, it's Jen, back with another Trimmy Trim. Uh…Honestly here's something about—So, the origin of Trimmy Trim— Trimmy Trim was created by me and one other person, so only two people are allowed to f*****g use it… [The other is] A tall girl whose name begins with an F. If you hear anybody outside of either one of us using it, they're a wack-ass b***h, and they don't f*****g deserve to use the term Trimmy Trim because they weren't f*****g there when it happened. Anyway. My, uh... My Trimmy Trim today, though, has nothing to do with people who are in fact wack-ass b*****s and steal your original ideas. My Trimmy Trim is actually about how I don't believe in soul contracts. In fact, it kind of enrages me, in a way, to think that before I got on this earth, I sat down with everybody I'd ever come into contact with, and made arrangements with them for how they're going to come into my life for 10 seconds and then be on my mind for 30 years. I do not think that happened. I can't even throw a successful birthday party, you think I got all these loose souls around? Also, the implication that we all got together as omnipotent beings to experience things? If we know stuff, we don't have to experience it again to, like, learn it. That doesn't make any f*****g sense. I need somebody to explain this soul contract thing to me better, because I just ain't buying it as it stands. It sounds like a fucked-up, victim-blaming version of reincarnation, and I'm just not about that. I will say, though, that I do think that there's a lot of people who are collateral damage to the karma of others. I think that, you know, like a lot of the injustices of colonization are part of this. If you want to look at it just from a reincarnating perspective: the people who suffered through injustices, it doesn't have anything to do with their karma. They were just in the ~*vibe space*~ of the person who is actively resolving their karma. It's really unfortunate, but you can kind of think of it like… A long time ago, there was this girl who was trying to go after my boyfriend. One of my friends said, well, like, what does she have against you that she wants to steal him? That's so weird. The thing is, it wasn't anything about me. I was just there, in the wrong place, but she'd wanted my boyfriend anyway. It had nothing to do with me, whether respectful or antagonistic, nothing to do with me either way. She wanted him regardless.So, sometimes I feel like maybe the karma isn't that personal, but that doesn't mean that we all got together and decided that this was the play we were going to create. This was not a functional group project. And I can't stand that— This explains, actually!— The people who came up with this theory are the people who wouldn't do their s**t. That's exactly what this is. This is people in a group project who can't do their stuff, and just point fingers and place the accountability elsewhere.

I have more thoughts about how… [sigh] I hate the idea that life is a video game, because that really implies that there's like a creator, and I just don't think that there is. And I don't think that we're living in a simulation, because again, it implies omnipotent outside control. What I think is that as the energies of life ebb and flow, we will be presented with the same choices, and obstacles, and forks in the road in different amounts, and in different appearances. And if we don't heed those warnings, then we will fork down ever problematic, ever worsening paths. But if we learn the lessons from the previous levels, then we move forward toward progress. Not only are there individual video games where people just think that they have to win based on their life and their individual levels, but there's also the swarm, the hive of humankind. And I think that that is the part that a lot of people forget.And maybe that's the part that people are trying to get in touch with again with this whole soul contract idea. But the earth is a cooperative environment, and humans are a cooperative entity. They are legion. Sometimes people don't know that, and then they have to do the level over again. Just because you have to do it, doesn't mean I agree to all your b******t. So, f**k a soul contract. Reincarnate on your own time. And always try to be [singing] in good vi-uh-i-uh-ibes! Except for that wack-ass b***h who stole my hashtag.

[~*guitar solo*~]

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