Ben Boyarko is an alien mystic from the swirling depths of the cosmos, come to earth to save humanity from the creeping doom of an apocalyptic future through genuine kindness and occasional global hyparxis. Also he likes writing.

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He also is studying at NVU to develop counseling skills, studying somatic experiencing, and body psychology.

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And he writes dumb comics apparently...

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You know what? This guy... What is even up with this guy?

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Sorry. I got to break the third person crap, here.

I'm gonna just be totally honest with you all. I don't have the stomach for marketing, or trying to portray myself in any serious way. I'm just me. I'm never going to be popular, or cut my edges so that I look clean or presentable or whatever. I'm gonna just keep doing what I do, which... I don't even know what that is apparently. 

I get up at the crack of still-dark-in-the-morning. I read scholarly articles for fun. I make art semi-compulsively whenever I get the inspiration.

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I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, and I'm just going to keep doing that.

The serious people that i talk to will probably never take me seriously enough. The cool people I talk to will probably never think I'm cool enough. I'm going to just have to get over the fact that I don't actually care as much about that as I do about whatever ridiculous thing I'm about to go do next.

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Also, this.

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Why this guy always wearing a grey jumpsuit?

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There's two answers.

Its hard to find pants that fit. I used to have a kind of pants I liked. They were comfortable, and didn't break. But they stopped making that kind. So I got a jumpsuit because it's like two clothes for the price of one good pair of pants. It turned out to be really comfortable, so I got many of them. 

Also, I like how I don't choose clothes anymore. I just wear the same thing every day. I used to waste time trying to decide what to wear, and I just don't spend those minutes of a day doing that anymore.

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Why does he always say "See you in the future?"

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Well. Its true. The next time I see you will be in the future. 

Its also an intervention. None of us actually know what will happen next. That's a pretty heavy and potentially disturbing thought. Sometimes it helps to just have a reminder that there probably will be a future. And if we get to see each other again in that future, maybe it will be a pretty good or at least an ok enough kind of future. 

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