May 13, 2007 14:10
I should document my life more often.
Had a nice long chat with Tatiana....that was nice. Used nice twice.
So, I'm thinking at how in my element I am in a large city. I grew up in Miami, for goodness sake.City life is not something you can learn too quickly. And there's always something to do, and you always feel accomplished. But that's just it, there's too much to do. It can get stiffling..everything costs money, there's no real nature...the beach is polluted. The days go by so quickly and you don't even know how. And you have to be mean.
New England life seems so much simpler. I want to live in the woods in a log cabin with...oh LYRICS "I wanna live life, never be cruel. I wanna live life, and be good to you. And I wanna fly, and never come down. And live my life...and have friends around. So I wanna live, in a wooden house. I wanna live life and always be true? I wanna live life...and be good to you and I wanna fly, and never come down. And live my life and have friends around..."
And I want to raise a family without having to worry about them being hurt or contaminated...
I want to bathe in a river. And read all day. And not have to feel like I'm in a constant struggle to get ahead in life, as if I was always in a competition with everyone around me. I'm sick of that feeling. I am competitive by nature, but that's sickening to the soul..I'M TIRED OF IT. And in the end, it might hurt the relationships that are really important, and we're all going to the same place, and my life would have just been one big struggle. I'm not buddhist.
The problem: I want to change the world. As I've gotten older, seeing suffering, even on TV or in a movie, touches me harder...and if I work hard enough I can have the resources to change SOMETHING. But by the time I'm accomplished enough to make a difference, will I be so tired that I just want to reap the benefits and relax in my success?