“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.” – MLK
As I have said before, sometimes it is best to hold your tongue, than to just recite unrehearsed lines. I have also mentioned that sometimes it is a good way to unwind to just write a few lines. I think what is most important is that I don’t try to sound overly eloquent, or intelligent, especially when it should certainly be acknowledged, that all my ideas are not final, always well-thought out, or right.
I’m doing alright, in case you are wondering. Same old, same old. Nothing much has changed. Or maybe everything is different. But like, most things, it’s a little bit of both. I look different to myself. But nobody notices. Maybe they do.
I love having ideas and points to make and prove about the world. I highly value an idea that comes from long-term sanity – which I don’t have. That being said, my days are long. And the years are short.
Sometimes you can just think about how much you missed while you were having fun. Young and stupid and happy. I live my life by quotes – which are really just sentences, usually out of context. I guess that is better than by living by a non-existent constitution. However, living your life by a novel, with flesh, blood, a plot, and characters to remember, might have more worth than one life sentence.
It’s not funny to me that we still use what was written in 1776. I don’t know why, but somebody has to be the adult in a room. And we are a generation of children. Let us be. But the joke might grow old. Hopefully we will all be laughing in old age. “People were born to laugh.” I’ll live by that even if it’s incorrect.
Ben Bonkoske 