(Are you with me when I say I'm tempted to buy the Monster Ballad 2 CD set with SkidRow hits like 18 and life or so and so's November Rain?)
And with further thought, i don't know if i'd ever be one to admit that Carrie Bradshaw occassionally doled out good advice... in abeyance of SP I'm watching SintheC. and she says, in NY you're always looking for three things: a job, a boyfriend, and an apartment. So why is it that -1 and +2 equals zero?
i don't know. i'm not even going to figure out if that actually adds up to zero or one or what. i do know that perspective is always better than looking toward a tunnel that may or may not contain an oncoming train. but nevertheless, the absense of something can lead to a great many troubles and there is something to be said for the power of psychic space.
yesterday i had a conversation with B and he was on the perspective train. ie. compared to oppressed and suffering people in other countries we have it easy- so why am i complaining. well, from the cynical train, this easy life sucks us dry of meaning. it's not a high stakes game, we're not even in the majors. i think that's what i was trying to express with the life or death living analogy on a previous post. what are we fighting for? living and dying for? sometimes it doesn't seem nearly as important as people in the world who actually have to stand for hard moral choices or even just survival. but then again, that would probably get to be a grind too- of course it would, living in the ever present shadow of a despot or fearing that your life will daily be ripped from you. sitting on the sidelines is mandatory, but there's a danger that at those times you will forget what you stand for and the things that give you passion, and then life has the opportunity to leave you soul-less. so that's... what? life. so, maybe it's that and winter too- so now is the winter of my discontent... hmmm. here's to winter.
as someone in matchpoint queries: is despair the easier road? or is faith? (but that's for another post-another time)
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That is so weird, I was just pondering this morning some Carrie Bradshaw advice--maybe they get more philosophical in the later eps? I'm almost up to Season 6 (which means this kid better come soon, because after that, I'm out). Anyway, there was this episode about bad reviews, and how we need to believe the reviews we give ourselves, not the ones other people give us, and... anyway, it affected me. Yeah.
I guess we might have it "easy" compared to the rest of the world--it's just the way we've set up our society, it creates a whole other set of problems, somehow equally as pressing as survival, within the context. I don't know if it means our issues have any less value...
Anyway, I'm off to post "Missing" posters for my brain cells. I feel really out of it.
it's from the same episode- or at least the one right after it!
Whoa...
Check out Walker Percy's book Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help book. I think you'll like it considering the state you're in....
i don't know if i need to read a self-help book on my love for 80's hair bands. my love for them is eternal and will never flag.
"Remember yesterday, walking hand in hand... and i'll be there for you."
we all need some drama, strong contrast,
ban the shades of gray that melt softly into each other.
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