Monday, October 15, 2018
What is meaningful at the age of 20 may not be so meaningful at the age of 30. What means something at 30 may not mean the same thing at 40... and so on. When you are young, you don't think about these things. I did... and I have seen and felt these things to be true. Some say being alone means you miss something in life. You miss raising a family, being married (or not), looking forward to being retired and so on and so forth. I suppose if those things were important to me and I never got to experience them, then yes, I would miss them personally. But since I never ever wanted those things in life, it is impossible for me to miss them. I am a watcher, a witness with a closed mouth to all the words and deeds people use and do.
When I was younger, I would listen to folks talk as if they had the world by the balls and everything belonged to them. Every country-club I went to was full of people who talked just like that and more. Many of them are dead now... laying in the ground. It's the place we are all destined for... it's the place from which nobody can escape. Being humble, being kind and showing love is all we have to represent the light we were all given at birth.
I watched as a blank, dark channel suddenly changed into something called MTV. From that moment, everything in the social world changed. From a Sociological perspective, one could make a good living writing about all the bridges between video music and say... the political or religious world. I mean to tell you one could make a damn fine living talking about that day forward. The first video played was by Buggles and it was called "Video Killed the Radio Star."
The parks were always full in the seventies. You had your rocker dudes and chicks burning weed in the back crankin zep. You had the sporto's playing ball at the diamond. You had the swimmers staying cool and prepared for the coming season. You had the hoopsters playin ball on the courts. The musicians were always somewhere out in the field in a circle playin. You could always find people gathered at the various lakes and waterways fishin and swimmin. There was always somethin goin on...
It's easy to look upon a man's work and call it ludicrous. It's just about the easiest thing to do. Being a critic of someone is just the human element coming out where there is no understanding. Often times, in the instance of reading a book or going deep in the analysis of someone's painting, it takes two or three good go-over's before any understanding can be had. Once understood, the reader or looker may not like what they read or see. But at the very least he or she will understand why they don't like it... and maybe sometime down the road their understandings may differ in some strange way to make them read it again or take one more good, long gander at that wavy landscape.
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