Comments on: in our dreams, we can live on misbehaviour

By: daddio

daddio — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:16:10 +0000

holy shit!
could see that you seemed changed, more content, happier on your last visit…didn’t know you had a freakin epiphany! welcome to the club. happens to us all sooner or later…for better or worse. insight is a funny thing, just when you think you got it figured out, the finsh line changes and you have to re-think it. the good news is, is really doesn’t end. hence, wisdom generally becomes more profound with age… although there are many an exception. the other piece of good news is that as long as you are sucking breath, there is always time to learn more, be wiser, become kinder, be more generous, be more forgiving, be more understanding and sometimes to become angry and change something.
enjoy the journey.
i just finished watching many hours of eulogies on ted and watching the impact of one person’s life upon not just a whole society, but on individual he reached out to and touched along the way. it was interesting that he was pretty lost at times, causing such grief on himself and others. there is redemption and there is greatness within us all when we seek it out. the secret is finding the path to choose. it sounds like you are certainly on that path and i know that such greatness shines within you and as your life moves forward that light will surround you and all those you touch.
see you real soon.
love ya
daddio

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:49:37 +0000

i'm glad so many can identify with this - sometimes we feel like we're the only ones who've ever experienced something, even when we know otherwise. "I like where I am today. I like who I am today." this is it in a nutshell. i wouldn't undo any of it. "Pee Wee was a rebel" yes, yes he was

By: Thomas Foolery

Thomas Foolery — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:56:17 +0000

Pee Wee was a rebel

By: A Free Man

A Free Man — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:23:12 +0000

I think we lived a parallel life.

“i rebelled in other way too. i dropped out of university. i moved to new york and i moved to an unsavoury part of town. i took up smoking. i got engaged at 19. whatever was expected of me, i set out to do the exact opposite of. i did daring and sometimes unsafe things. i didn’t want to be confined, easily pinned or compartmentalised.”

Check. check. check. check.

And I can make checkmarks along your description of getting older as well.

I don’t regret anything about my teens and twenties. It was essential in becoming who I am today. It was hard and painful, but if I didn’t go through it I absolutely wouldn’t be where I am today.

I like where I am today. I like who I am today.

Beautifully written, Jen.

By: julie b.

julie b. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:51:59 +0000

Can’t really express how much I relate to your post & associated thinking. First thing that came to my mind after reading it is “I’m so glad that wisdom really does come with aging”.

By: Noble Savage

Noble Savage — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:51:30 +0000

I love this post. Your ability for self-reflection and putting things into perspective is a trait I admire in you, because you’re so damn good at it! Well written.