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Tue 6 Apr, 2004 10:53 pm
If you only had the following two choices:
1. live a quiet life, work your whole life at a job that doesn't inspire you but does pay the bills, save your money, never smoke, drink, gamble, or try any other vice, never travel or even leave your hometown, marry the girl next door, raise a family, and die quietly in your sleep at the age of 90.
or,
2. You can live the life of Jimi Hendrix: Live in the moment, do every drug you can find, have sex with hundreds of adoring groupies, create unbelievably great music for your living, become a legend, and die in a pool of your own vomit at the age of 27.
Which would you choose?
2.
But I don't like either all that very much.
Hmm, technically, I think that's one choice, two options.
I picked #2.
One who dies owing a million probably had more fun than one who dies leaving a million ....
I dunno ... for a while there, I was workin' pretty hard at #2, but somehow I just never pulled it off. I guess that pretty much consigns me to #1 now, doesn't it? Well, 'cept mebbe the smokin' - drinkin - gamblin' part. Never saw much point in avoidin' stuff I could do well. Done a buncha travelin' too ... and ain't done some othat other stuff there in #1, or ain't done much of it.
Hmmmm .... wonder just where that does leave me?
In my youth I lived life on the edge. As I get older, #2 life style sounds too extreme and #1 a bit boring. Now, if the two could be mixed up together, it may not be a bad life. You could still die quietly in your sleep at age 90, after having the most rockin' party of the century in your home.
I'm not interested in marrying the girl next door. Otherwise, I'd go for the first. I'm tired of worrying about stuff.
Well, I'd definitely go with #1. First of all I happen to like the boy next door. Second, even if my job doesn't inspire me I can have great hobbies on the side(computers games food tennis swords math...). Third, I'm not promiscuous nor am I a seeker of material indulgence.
Neither, really. Both choices are too extreme. I don't want to be bored to death (1), nor do I want to be outrageously reckless & self obsessed. (2) Something in between would suit me fine.
Not interested in doing drugs, don't want sex with groupies. I think that #1, with a slight touch of #2 would suit me fine!
My life has been a mix, and I've rather liked that about it.
On jobs and hobbies; I turned my passion, or one of them, painting, into a job by essentially doing art (design and drawing) nine to five, but that sort of deflates energy that is there to paint as well. Not that I'm sorry I did that, just a comment on choices seeming boring.
Yeah... pretty much self-excluded from #1 or #2.
'Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse.'
-J Dean
If those were indeed the only two choices availible to us, I would go with #2, only because both are miserable but one is shorter. Thankfully, in the real world, we have many more options within the gray area.
I would most definitely choose two; some might say that the lows enhance the highs, but I would rather die a legend, having experienced a lot, than have lived a sedated life. I couldn't stand number one...
What others think of me doesn't matter, so the legends and groupies part of #2 doesn't do anything for me. Dying young, no thanks.
A quiet, pleasant life? Definitely a target for me.
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