who made up these freakin rules?!

we send our kids to school so they can learn the basics; reading, writing, arithmetic and...compliance....the rules of society, agreed upon by the many and to hell with the few who may have stood outside the box just long enough to say, "whoa....wait a minute....that's not going to work....", that guy was either labeled eccentric and tolerated or, straight up put down...put away, done away with....well, now what's happening? yeah...that's right....it's not working....and it's becoming all too clear that something must be done...but, to step out of the way "it's always been" is an almost physical battle...when your paradigm is all you've ever known or all you can remember, to step around that wall is a committment to change many are simply too frightened to committ to...
i want that change...i want it so bad i can taste it....that's not to say i'm not scared...i'm scared to death....but i want it nonetheless....i want to know what it's like to live, really, really live....i want to do away with the noise that threatens my wakefulness...i want the core of life to be all that i am, on every level....to stand on that mountaintop and feel the cold wind on my skin, breathe in my freedom as i let go of all that i have....all the "stuff" i've hung onto for so long...i want to spread my arms as though i could fly and i want to feel the full force of it all...to let go and become a part of it all...to know that i am not separate from all that is...that my identity is simply another agreement i've taken on...that is all...who i am is something much deeper...
this way of thinking....this realization wakes in me (again) a respect for everyone i come across...the connection is all that is, all that truly matters and a constant second only to the fact that everything changes....even identities....my compassion grows for the one who i would normally be bothered by...he is a gift....a way to wake me up from this dream....
yeah....wake up....realize that "this" is simply an agreement....it is not reality....look around you....most of it is not reality....decide for yourself to live....LIVE...