Apr 18, 2005 23:21
When I was young, my family went to the beach one day. When we were leaving, I found a dead baby sea turtle, and I cried uncontrollably about it. Upon calming down I explained the reason for my sorrow by stating, "It'll never know the ocean, It'll never know the ocean..." I didn't care that it was dead, or that it died so young, just that it died knowing nothing but a dry, sandy, hot, ugly world. It didn't see that there was a world where it would be suspended, weightless, in a world of blue so far reaching that it's akward little flippers would propel it around effortlessly. It never knew it's potential for graceful, fluid movement. Instead, it died thinking it could barely move itself, it's pathetic, short life wasted. Sad, but that's the world, right? In fact that seems to be a very good analogy for life.
- Drew Malone
"Cheap, but not as cheap as your girlfriend"