“There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you from experience. All these cities I have been in the last few weeks make me fully understand the cozy, stifling state in which most people pass through life. I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don’t want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun – hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, “Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case.” I will turn and say to them “It is you who are the basket case. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn’t even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!” And maybe, the passers by will drop a coin into my cup.”
Henry Rollins
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I had a conversation like this with my son and daughter this weekend.
I had rented the movie “Groundhog Day” where the character relives a single day over and over again and he is the only one to remember it. He eventually got it right and learned a life lesson and his single day eventually ended and his life began anew.
It spawned a huge conversation regarding quality of life vs quantity in terms of years, and whether immortality is a curse or a blessing. Kind of hard stuff for a 10 year old boy and a 7 year old girl but it is cool to hear that they have opinions… or even better can disagree with mine. :D
Living In God's Exquisite, Miraculous Sufficiency hasn't had time to be on 43T. Been busy with life.
Children's Opinions
Something I’m learning, Thomas, is that despite how young a person is, if they are able to express an opinion, they are entitled to it. Learning that my 3 yr old or 6 yr old have opinions is almost foreign to me.
Growing up in a strict traditional Chinese home, my parents didn’t care what my opinion was—better to be seen than to be heard.
If only some parts of our lives we could relive until we did it right, that would be grand, or would it?
It’s great that you can allow your children’s voices to be heard. It will do wonders for their self-esteem. You’re a good daddy.
Living In God's Exquisite, Miraculous Sufficiency hasn't had time to be on 43T. Been busy with life.
Wonderful
I read this and agree on many levels. The main jist was there is no reason to ever be bored, rather it is our choosing to be bored.
Thank you for sharing this.
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