When I first started writing this post, I wanted it to be all edgy and cool and smart. I wanted it to be so awesome, everyone would just adore it.

However, that post didn’t want to be written. So I’m writing this one instead.

Last week, my wonderful friends Kyeli and Pace, of FreakRevolution.com, sent me a sneak preview of their Freak Revolution Manifesto. I totally fell in love with it, and offered to blog about it on their launch day (today) to help spread the word around it, cus I really think they’ve got something.

So I wanted to write this really witty, engaging post so that everyone else would love it too and this little piece of awesomeness would get spread around. But it seems that my wittiness is taking a mental vacation, so you’ll just have to put up with my humble, but adoring review.

(Warning: overexcited ravings may follow.)

Once upon a time…

We were all little children running around happily. We loved ourselves, we loved our families, we loved the world. We were curious, inventive, imaginative. We didn’t do anything unless it made us happy. We just acted, without shame or the need to fit in a box to make society happy.

We were just ourselves.

Then one day, we lost that. We went to school, we were taught to grow up, pay attention, sit down, don’t daydream, fit in, do your work, and be responsible. Happiness stopped being the objective – getting graded and finishing work on schedule was the name of the game.

We forgot ourselves.We became unwilling entrants to the rat race. And we’ve all been running that race ever since.

But what if you wanted to stop?

Connection. It’s all about connection.

Pace and Kyeli propose that the world needs a revolution. Not of the “chop off your leader’s head” kind, but a revolution of ideas.

I think this is bloody brilliant. They talk about how the world’s problems could all be fixed if we just reconnected with ourselves, and our hearts, and connected with each other again.

So many people spend their lives living it the way they think they’re supposed to live it. We’re trying to live up to these almost impossible standards that suffocate our sense of self and suffocate our happiness. I used to be one of those people until I made the choice to live life on my own terms (this is still a work in progress mind you, but I get better every day.)

Obviously when I read all this I got excited. I mean, this is what I live my life for. This is why I do what I do – to be a  leader, and show the way towards a life that isn’t a life of quiet, muzzled misery, but a life where we run free, and do what we love and be with who we love. It’s my own small way, I’ve always wanted to contribute to a world that looks like that.

Now Pace and Kyeli are leading the way and I am behind them 100%.

There was one line in particular that got me.

“Some of us, however, are called to connect with more than 150 people. We can’t do that by making thousands of friends because they won’t all fit inside our monkeyspheres, so we find other ways…..We create art that awakens the mind, moves the heart, and stirs the soul.”

My soul whispered “Yes” when I read this sentence.

That’s what I do (or at least, that’s what I aim to do). As far as I’m concerned, that is my ultimate goal in life. To create art that connects with you, with the world. I want to wake people up. I want them to remember what it’s like to be alive. I want them to remember their souls.

I could go on for another 4 hours

But this is the kind of thing that is best explained by itself. It’s a free download, it’s less than 50 pages, and it is well worth the read. I laughed, I cried and by the end, I was ready to take on the world. This book makes you want to change your life. It makes you want to connect, it makes you want to be free again.

But most importantly, it makes you want to be happy. And if you aren’t happy, then what’s the point?

If you feel so inclined, please, head over to the Freak Revolution site, and treat yourself to a read. I promise, you won’t regret it.

Click here to read The Freak Revolution Manifesto and change your life.