I'm not much into electronica, but I really like this song by Gigi D'Agostino. Obviously not much by way of lyrics but it does have a maddeningly catchy refrain which sort of fits into this next piece of balderdash. So here goes...
Just when you've think that you've got life all figured out, fate does a polka and sends you awhirl again. You spin and spin and spin and when you finally come to rest it's all you can do to not totter into some corner and call it a night, which is what most of us end up doing anyway. The remaining few wait patiently for the world to come to an even keel before they venture out again in search of logic and sanity. Call it naivete, foolish optimism or just plain old mulishness, but that is the way to go. You don't let the cosmos fool around with you and take it lying down. No. You stay put and stare it down, ala John Wayne. It's highly likely that this will achieve absolutely zilch and leave you even more battered and bruised in the end. Men will jeer, women will titter and dogs and sundry animals will relieve themselves on your person. So what? It's either this or going around with you tail between your legs.
It's not a choice between a rock and a hard place. It's not even a choice. After God knows how many years of human evolution how can we even consider rolling it all back and revert to being mindless slugs! I came into this world to make a difference, to mark my presence on this ball of rock in towering letters of fire. I'm the butterfly burst forth from the chrysalis, the rose blossomed from the bud. I'm a thing of beauty, evanescent in existence but brilliant in radiance. I refuse to countenance the extinction of my dreams. I set my feet on this path a long time ago and I'll be damned if I let anyone shake me from it. This is what I live for. Without it I'm nothing.
Just when you've think that you've got life all figured out, fate does a polka and sends you awhirl again. You spin and spin and spin and when you finally come to rest it's all you can do to not totter into some corner and call it a night, which is what most of us end up doing anyway. The remaining few wait patiently for the world to come to an even keel before they venture out again in search of logic and sanity. Call it naivete, foolish optimism or just plain old mulishness, but that is the way to go. You don't let the cosmos fool around with you and take it lying down. No. You stay put and stare it down, ala John Wayne. It's highly likely that this will achieve absolutely zilch and leave you even more battered and bruised in the end. Men will jeer, women will titter and dogs and sundry animals will relieve themselves on your person. So what? It's either this or going around with you tail between your legs.
It's not a choice between a rock and a hard place. It's not even a choice. After God knows how many years of human evolution how can we even consider rolling it all back and revert to being mindless slugs! I came into this world to make a difference, to mark my presence on this ball of rock in towering letters of fire. I'm the butterfly burst forth from the chrysalis, the rose blossomed from the bud. I'm a thing of beauty, evanescent in existence but brilliant in radiance. I refuse to countenance the extinction of my dreams. I set my feet on this path a long time ago and I'll be damned if I let anyone shake me from it. This is what I live for. Without it I'm nothing.
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