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One day last week I was really impressed by this little girl at the library.
She was no older than 8.
They made these projects to give to someone, so they all wrote a greeting card type thing in them. Most kids wrote something like "I love you" or something. Many of them couldn't write really, so they were lucky if they could get that much out there.
This little girl just wrote "My life is fun."
How cool is that? She was a smart kid too, so it's not like her parents sat her down and said listen, we're going to teach you to write this one sentence and that's it. This way people won't think your life sucks. It's like she genuinely sat there thinking of what to write and that's what she came up with.
When I was a kid my card would've been addressed to someone like charlie brown or lucy or something. Saying something like "How are you?" Because I liked to write to cartoon characters a lot. I also liked writing to the tooth fairy, very very very VERY elaborate letters. I guess I've always been the writing type. Not that I'm so great at it, but it's something I really do enjoy doing...arranging words. Thinking about how to express myself in some way no one else has. I think I've done it a few times, not to brag. I think I've had some pretty fucked up sentences published.
But back to the little girl. (sorry for the really obnoxious tangent!) I just think that is really awesome. Children should all have fun lives. You're a kid, goddamnit! Of COURSE your life is fun. I just wanted to go over and be like the eccentric dirty bum lady in all the movies that always has the wise message to say, and be like, "make sure your life is always fun, kid." But she is so young, she wouldn't really understand. But you guys can. You know what I mean about this? I know it sounds a little Catcher in the Rye-esque, and it kind of is.
People waste too much time in bullshit. I can't come here tonite b/c I don't want to give the impression that I'm too eager to see this person...I don't want to go do this because this person is gonna be mad at me if I do...it kills me. Although I definitely denied this for a while in my weird philosophical stage (i definitely used to be worse, BELIEVE me), there are certain very important committments you have to the people close to you. If you have a conscience, you don't just say screw it and do whatever the fuck you want. But at the same time, if you think about why you're not getting out and having an experience, whether it be a good one or a bad one...whether it be with people or just something you've wanted to do yourself...why you're not feeling anything whether it be good or bad...and the ONLY reason you're not doing it is because of some wall of bullshit that you've kinda built up around yourself, then you don't deserve to write "my life is fun" on your arts and crafts project. Because that sucks. And I'm not saying everyone does it, but it's just something I notice a lot of people do, and something I try to avoid like the plague. I've succeeded thus far. (See Magnolia, the scene where the coke-head and police officer are on a date, this reminds me of that)
So the little girl is off to a good start. My ex-friends the go-gos once wrote a song about this all, I believe it was called "get up and go." What do you want from me? It was 80's pop lol.
And now it's time to play "let me shut the fuck up before this all sounds unbearably pretentious!" :)
...when you've got words?
She was no older than 8.
They made these projects to give to someone, so they all wrote a greeting card type thing in them. Most kids wrote something like "I love you" or something. Many of them couldn't write really, so they were lucky if they could get that much out there.
This little girl just wrote "My life is fun."
How cool is that? She was a smart kid too, so it's not like her parents sat her down and said listen, we're going to teach you to write this one sentence and that's it. This way people won't think your life sucks. It's like she genuinely sat there thinking of what to write and that's what she came up with.
When I was a kid my card would've been addressed to someone like charlie brown or lucy or something. Saying something like "How are you?" Because I liked to write to cartoon characters a lot. I also liked writing to the tooth fairy, very very very VERY elaborate letters. I guess I've always been the writing type. Not that I'm so great at it, but it's something I really do enjoy doing...arranging words. Thinking about how to express myself in some way no one else has. I think I've done it a few times, not to brag. I think I've had some pretty fucked up sentences published.
But back to the little girl. (sorry for the really obnoxious tangent!) I just think that is really awesome. Children should all have fun lives. You're a kid, goddamnit! Of COURSE your life is fun. I just wanted to go over and be like the eccentric dirty bum lady in all the movies that always has the wise message to say, and be like, "make sure your life is always fun, kid." But she is so young, she wouldn't really understand. But you guys can. You know what I mean about this? I know it sounds a little Catcher in the Rye-esque, and it kind of is.
People waste too much time in bullshit. I can't come here tonite b/c I don't want to give the impression that I'm too eager to see this person...I don't want to go do this because this person is gonna be mad at me if I do...it kills me. Although I definitely denied this for a while in my weird philosophical stage (i definitely used to be worse, BELIEVE me), there are certain very important committments you have to the people close to you. If you have a conscience, you don't just say screw it and do whatever the fuck you want. But at the same time, if you think about why you're not getting out and having an experience, whether it be a good one or a bad one...whether it be with people or just something you've wanted to do yourself...why you're not feeling anything whether it be good or bad...and the ONLY reason you're not doing it is because of some wall of bullshit that you've kinda built up around yourself, then you don't deserve to write "my life is fun" on your arts and crafts project. Because that sucks. And I'm not saying everyone does it, but it's just something I notice a lot of people do, and something I try to avoid like the plague. I've succeeded thus far. (See Magnolia, the scene where the coke-head and police officer are on a date, this reminds me of that)
So the little girl is off to a good start. My ex-friends the go-gos once wrote a song about this all, I believe it was called "get up and go." What do you want from me? It was 80's pop lol.
And now it's time to play "let me shut the fuck up before this all sounds unbearably pretentious!" :)
...when you've got words?