Post by Noah on May 1, 2009 20:35:27 GMT -5
Oh noes! I double posted! Read up everyone and make your brains fat
We’re all going to die someday, when and how is the mystery of life. We all make plans for the future but all it takes is that one moment in time when we start to cross the street at the wrong time. It only takes that one truck turning the corner, the truck we never seee, to turn all those future plans we’ve made into a waste of preparation for something that will never come. Or maybe we get all of our dreams but end hopeless because we've already achieved all of our hopes. We sit out the last years of our lives in the comfort of our paid-off home watching reruns of the shows we used to watch, wishing for those frightful times when we were uncertain. Would we be able to support our families? Were our jobs secure? Would that lady from Vegas ever reemerge and tell my wife I was already taken before she ever entered the picture? But sometimes someone gets it right. They hit the nail of life on the head and die content that they did everything they ever wanted and nothing more. I want to be one of those guys.
People talk about their lives' goals. They talk about wanting to raise a family, going to foreign lands, learning how to skydive, but is that really what life is all about? If I do all these things have I really experienced life? I want to wake up in a bed with a random person and wonder if I've just done something I will cry over in the confines of my bathroom. I want to look the judge in the eyes and say, “Yes, I know what I did is wrong but I don’t regret it.” I want to walk down the street with people whispering behind my back and know that, even though they’re all talking about the incident, they only do so because they wish they had the freedom I did at that moment. To me life isn’t about some grand achievement. It’s about doing something that no one says you should just because it is your life. Society only looks down on us because we are free-spirits and they know that they’ll never reach the heights which we have touched in our souls. Sometimes feeling wrong is right.
Today my friend and I decided to become famous for random shenanigans but one of our friends didn't think we would succeed. She said that it was impossible. We didn’t see a negative. We saw a challenge. We are planning capers that will astound the world. We want to do things that make people put down their work, gather around the TV and wonder what will happen next. We want to make news where no one dies, no one is crying, and everyone goes home happy. If this means breaking the law, is that all that bad? We only have one summer left together and we want our names to be branded in the town’s history books. We'll be like Jack the Ripper except we’ll treat the hookers to cake and ice cream instead of killing them. I think they’d like that, don’t you?
We’re all going to die someday, when and how is the mystery of life. We all make plans for the future but all it takes is that one moment in time when we start to cross the street at the wrong time. It only takes that one truck turning the corner, the truck we never seee, to turn all those future plans we’ve made into a waste of preparation for something that will never come. Or maybe we get all of our dreams but end hopeless because we've already achieved all of our hopes. We sit out the last years of our lives in the comfort of our paid-off home watching reruns of the shows we used to watch, wishing for those frightful times when we were uncertain. Would we be able to support our families? Were our jobs secure? Would that lady from Vegas ever reemerge and tell my wife I was already taken before she ever entered the picture? But sometimes someone gets it right. They hit the nail of life on the head and die content that they did everything they ever wanted and nothing more. I want to be one of those guys.
People talk about their lives' goals. They talk about wanting to raise a family, going to foreign lands, learning how to skydive, but is that really what life is all about? If I do all these things have I really experienced life? I want to wake up in a bed with a random person and wonder if I've just done something I will cry over in the confines of my bathroom. I want to look the judge in the eyes and say, “Yes, I know what I did is wrong but I don’t regret it.” I want to walk down the street with people whispering behind my back and know that, even though they’re all talking about the incident, they only do so because they wish they had the freedom I did at that moment. To me life isn’t about some grand achievement. It’s about doing something that no one says you should just because it is your life. Society only looks down on us because we are free-spirits and they know that they’ll never reach the heights which we have touched in our souls. Sometimes feeling wrong is right.
Today my friend and I decided to become famous for random shenanigans but one of our friends didn't think we would succeed. She said that it was impossible. We didn’t see a negative. We saw a challenge. We are planning capers that will astound the world. We want to do things that make people put down their work, gather around the TV and wonder what will happen next. We want to make news where no one dies, no one is crying, and everyone goes home happy. If this means breaking the law, is that all that bad? We only have one summer left together and we want our names to be branded in the town’s history books. We'll be like Jack the Ripper except we’ll treat the hookers to cake and ice cream instead of killing them. I think they’d like that, don’t you?