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A comprehensive guide on 


How to achieve a state of purposelessness, rudderlessness and demotivation

How to become a stagnant marshland with no flow or will to go anywhere


Do not pick up any genetic mutations that will terminate you in utero

Do not be the product of a union between the old or illiterate or starving or diseased

Do not be the product of a union outside of wedlock

Do not be the product of a union with drugs or alcohol or violence or poverty

Do not be conceived in a society that rejects the female child; do not get aborted before birth; do not get suffocated, drowned, poisoned, thrown in garbage after birth

Do not be born to parents without enough affluence or influence to get pre-natal and ante-natal care 

Do not be born to a mother with no milk, no food, no safety, no medicines and no power to get any of these

Do not be born to a family with multiple mouths to feed and nothing to feed

Do not be born to a family with no power and no agency  

Do not be born to a caste that will denigrate your birth itself 

Do not be born to a tribe with no recourse to work or resources

Do not be born to a class where tomorrow is a wild unreasonable dream

Do not live in a caste, a class, a region or a society that cannot educate its young

Do not live in a family that has to prioritize education of some kids over others, males over females, younger over older, smarter over slower

Do not get sold, raped, beaten or starved to death before you see the threshold of a school

Do not go to a school where you are tortured or abused or only just wasting precious time

Do not go to a school where knowledge is a wonderous secret accessible only to the genius mind

Do not lose your parents to poverty, disease, disaster, abuse, self-harm or violence in childhood

Do not pick up an infection from the gutter, do not get bitten by a snake, do not fall into a well

Do not have your crops fail, or your loan recalled, your house washed away in the floods or your cattle die in the harvest

Do not let your family be driven away from home by climate or religion or caste 

Do not open your mouth against injustice, do not stand up against powerful forces

Do not get raped, burned by acid, shot, drowned, hung, set fire by in-laws

Do not be disabled, dependent or dead.


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