"And some day we will die
and our ashes will fly from the airplane over the sea
but for now we are young
let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see"
-Neutral Milk Hotel
Life is a funny thing, to question it means that your going to bring the question of life to the grave. Most of us don't bother to ask questions like these because there isn't any known answer to them, so we just go along for the ride. After listening to an amazing song, In an Areoplane Over the Sea, and reading, Pretty Little Mistakes, i realized how much the not knowing affects a persons life. Pretty Little Mistakes is a bunch of ways that your future will turn out, depending on your choices. This Verse from the song reall stood out to me in many, hard to explain, ways.
In a way, Neutral Milk Hotel is telling us the meaning of life. To live it to it's full extent and enjoy the experience. I think this is the most correct answer i have ever heard. After listening to this song multiple times, it processed through my mind that this was the answer and i will be wasting my "precious" time if i try to go deeper. Then i realized that we have the answers but we don't know where to look. I know that is a HUGE , used to many times, line from movies and stuff but its true.
People are so eager to know how and when and why life ends and the events that lead up to your easy or rough going, that they create books like Pretty Little Mistakes. Even if it means finding out that you die in a flock of angry seagulls, or live to the very end of time.
"Oh frog and toed oh frog and toed why are you lying in the street?
you didn't look
before you crossed
so now you look like apple sauce
oh frog and toed
oh frog and toed
why are you lying in the street?"
-AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The famous frog and toed song that parents use to get their kids to look both ways before they cross the street...kind of cruel. But that is the truth about life, you step out of line once, and your dead. Frog and Toed didn't look, for once in their lives, they walked without looking and then they get run over by a car and now they look like apple sauce. It drives my nerves to the edge!The one time that you leave your door open, your house cat runs out...Life is to complicated.
KNOW THIS
-every thing you do, you will pay for it...good or bad.
Love your post! I think every one can agree that we want to know the ANSWERS! And i thinnk one of the big questions is: what happens after you die? just thinking about it makes my brain hurt! but you are right. everything we do, affects us greatly!
ReplyDeleteP.S. You spelled Toad wrong. It's with a A not and E. :)
Amazingly well-written. That's all I can say about this post. I haven't heard the Frog and Toad song but it dazzles me that parents sing this to their kids. I would've been grossed out if my parents would've said this to me but it's reality. I think that these quesitons are the ones that blur our lives because we go on with our lives questioning our very existence instead of actually living it. We want to know everything we don't because we fear that one wrong move can possibly put an end to our lives. Really thought provoking.
ReplyDeleteNice post and well now I'm stuck with the image of frog and toad looking like apple sauce... lovely.
-Jacky =)
this is a really serious topic, and one that I ma sure everyone should think about. I feel that this is sort of the base of all philosophy for life, and unless you find a personal answer to this question, thinking about anything else s unimportant. personally, I think the purpose of life is to enjoy it!
ReplyDeletethis was a really thought provoking post, sam!!
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