This is an excerpt from a dialogue I frequently have with a friend. We are both in transition, dreaming of possibilities and being torn by realities. We talked again last night, and here is some of what I said.
I think too much planning ruins what we are really supposed to be doing – being free. If the spontaneous move doesn’t work, you make another one. I don’t know. Someone said I was a gypsy in a previous life.
You know, I may have told you this, but when I was about 20 in the early 70s, I read a Dear Abby column titled Advice at 85: Live Daringly. I still have it somewhere, and it shaped me. An 85 year old woman wrote to Abby and said if she had to do it over again, she’d eat ice cream for breakfast, and walk barefoot in winter more often (among other things). She felt she’d spent so much energy doing the ‘right’ thing that she missed living.
We should be spontaneous and deal with the consequences. We could die tomorrow, so what is there to lose? Nothing! Our society says this is wrong, and that is wrong, so we abide by its lame rules and lose out.
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Right on, chicka! Live free and die happy!
Love you,
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On NH license plates, it says Live Free or Die. :) (Sadly, people in prison are making them, but that’s a whole other story!)