As youths or young people, our ideas are not well shaped organised thoughts or carefully laid out plans. Rather, they are wild black stallions we get bruised and beaten by as we try to rein, corral and tame them to our will … though the very act of engaging in such unbound energising pursuits will deliver us a little wisdom … not that we yet know what to do with such a thing!
**”I cannot hide from myself – tried but failed – so savour every second of this little life.”**
You are right there, Blackjack, or should I say *correct* in making the decision to try to experience *everything* because, as my No 1 role model, Socrates is alleged to have said, “An unexplored life is not worth living,” which is saying just about the same thing you just wrote. (Above).
*Socrates never wrote as much as one word down throughout his life so we rely on his student Plato to enlighten us of his teachings, anecdotes and stories as revealed through Plato’s own writings.*
**”I listened to their songs, but personalised it all – they were speaking or rather singing about what was inside of me which was trying to get out and be realised for real.”**
Like true poets, I think the greatest artists and song writers deliver exactly the sentiment you express when the emotions they relay via their songs earth so strongly within us and that makes them and their lyrics relatable, tangible and bring our own emotions to life where, yes, they can be realised for real.
What songs or artists opened some doors for you, Blackjack?
Ha. Can’t ignore Jim Morrison and the Doors after writing that last sentence. 🙂 The Doors being named after the doors of perception by Aldous Huxley.
The Doors – The End (Full) Apocalypse Now (1979) Music Clip
Or
The Doors – Love Me Two Times
**”just grew as never grew up – never saw the point – grown ups are SO SERIOUS.”**
Ha ha. I said similar earlier this week. *“Having maintained my innocent childlike outlook of the world” I think I wrote.*I ment very much the same thing. 🙂
**”Sadly I cannot think of what I might like to do these day – what new adventure – am most concerned I have completely done everything that I ever possibly wanted to do – and repeating the past, even with new actors and scenery backdrops fails to float my boat. I am starting to envy people who want something – fancy something – I just wish I knew how to do it for myself.”**
As a teenager, I read am amazing science fiction short story about a man connected to a machine that was programmed to deliver him EVERY human experience. The trouble was; the man was alive for eternity and had already experienced every possible human experience a million times over. (I sometimes think I am that man after getting bored with Youtube! :)!! 🙂
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