live like you mean it. sounds cliche doesn't it? and it is. a truth transformed into banality. but what is 'cliche' except a recognition of the lasting power and meaning of the phrase? so i'm going to take that phrase and DO it. so few of us do. we say we live for life itself and then throw ourselves into meaningless routines and the neck-breaking pace of supposed progress. progress to what? if you 'progress' all your life but fail to appreciate life for what it is, have you really accomplished? have you really participated in the human experience?
so i'm going searching for simple vervacity. i'm going to look for truth, beauty, life, verve, and vivacity in the human experience we call life. i don't expect to succeed all the time, but i'm going to reach ever farther and at least grasp the dust of the heavens. so do not expect to see my heart lying in the past or wandering the future. find it in the evanescent here and now, embracing happiness and pain, joy and sorrow, the sound and the fury. i intend to live.
