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Default Feb 16, 2021 at 01:42 AM
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I really like a couple lines from Alanis Morissette's song "Joining You." In it she lists all sort of things that if they were the reason for living she'd join the suicidal character she's writing to. She sings:

"If we were our culture /
If we were our leaders /
I'd be joining you"

That really helped me at the time because i was doing political activism (this was twenty-five years ago) and getting more and more depressed. I heard these lines and thought: yeah, i'm not suicidal because of the NATO war in the Balkans. I'm suicidal because of my own problems. I don't need to go borrowing trouble.

So for that and other reasons i abandoned political activism and never looked back. I'll always be grateful to Alanis and that song.
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Default Feb 17, 2021 at 12:40 PM
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Take it slow
Make it last
Take it easy
Not too fast

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I think it's hilarious that a heavy metal band wrote these lyrics. I've remembered them since high school!
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So I'm letting it go again

I'm halfway full on
Left my meds on the sink today
My head will be racing by lunchtime

Don't sleep behind the wheel at the stoplight
Can't sleep behind the wheel as you're driving home
You keep coming down the hill as you're falling
You keep falling from the hill as you're coming down
Can't sleep behind the wheel at the stoplight
Can't sleep behind the wheel as you're driving home

So I'm holding her hand again
My palm sweats
Hold on
Think I've had too much coffee
I'm manic as hell
But I'm going strong


- Stone Temple Pilots, "Bipolar Bear"

The former lead singer had bipolar and struggled his entire life. Unfortunately, he refused medication. But I kinda feel this song.

I absolutely LOVE this song

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Default Feb 18, 2021 at 05:19 PM
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In the depth of winter, I found there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

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In the depth of winter, I found there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

What a mind Camus had!

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Good one @busymomof5. I've never read Camus. I'll have to do so.
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I really like a couple lines from Alanis Morissette's song "Joining You." In it she lists all sort of things that if they were the reason for living she'd join the suicidal character she's writing to. She sings:

"If we were our culture /
If we were our leaders /
I'd be joining you"

That really helped me at the time because i was doing political activism (this was twenty-five years ago) and getting more and more depressed. I heard these lines and thought: yeah, i'm not suicidal because of the NATO war in the Balkans. I'm suicidal because of my own problems. I don't need to go borrowing trouble.

So for that and other reasons i abandoned political activism and never looked back. I'll always be grateful to Alanis and that song.
@whatever2013 It's taken me a while to 'grok' this. I listened to the song and I finally get it. That's a powerful song.
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Default Feb 18, 2021 at 10:53 PM
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@wolftrap: Thanks for listening to the song. I'm glad you think it's powerful. So do i. I so wish i could be a musician and write powerful songs like this. But alas, i am a mediocre Scrabble player instead, who helps no one.
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@wolftrap: Thanks for listening to the song. I'm glad you think it's powerful. So do i. I so wish i could be a musician and write powerful songs like this. But alas, i am a mediocre Scrabble player instead, who helps no one.
I wish I could write songs, too, but alas I can't.

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I, too, would love to write song lyrics. As for the music itself...it would be amazing to write music, but way over my head!

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@Moose72 - I think your poetry could be put to music. If you wanted, you could find a musical collaborator online. I have a musician friend (old and somewhat famous - played at original Woodstock) who found a poem online he loved, contacted the poet for permission to use her poem, and has composed music specifically for her poem. He's recording an album that will be released on Spotify and other steaming services. He has a number of famous people playing on his album. It can be done!
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@Moose72 - I think your poetry could be put to music. If you wanted, you could find a musical collaborator online. I have a musician friend (old and somewhat famous - played at original Woodstock) who found a poem online he loved, contacted the poet for permission to use her poem, and has composed music specifically for her poem. He's recording an album that will be released on Spotify and other steaming services. He has a number of famous people playing on his album. It can be done!
I have a friend who composes and I showed him one of my new poems and he said he might compose a piece to it, "Something in C minor," he said but, not to hold my breath as to when he'd write it. So I'm not holding out high hopes.

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Default Feb 21, 2021 at 12:48 AM
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"People who claim they hate people they really fear they need are of limited interest, i find."

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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Tough to accept, but a good one.

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[Art is] always based on the two poles, the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from that bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity.

- Marcel Duchamp

One of my favorite artists. He essentially did not much.
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[Art is] always based on the two poles, the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from that bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity.

- Marcel Duchamp

One of my favorite artists. He essentially did not much.

I love this quote. Beautiful!



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Glad you like it! Duchamp was more of a thinker than an artist per se. He did not make many works. But what he did was extraordinarily influential. He was, at the core, a profound thinker about the relationship between art and those who look at art and what that meant about the human condition. But, he didn't write anything. He expressed his thoughts via his works. The only verbal records are from interviews.
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"It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years." Albert Einstein.

This quote weighs on me because i take meds to stay calm and in touch with reality but they squash my creativity. What's the use of living a long life if it's dull? My favorite author David Foster Wallace died of depression in his forties but not after he had gifted the world many works of art. So what is the measure of success? Living a short but productive life or living a long but mundane life? We seem to value survival at all costs. But what's the use of surviving if all you do is tolerate life? Better to have a passionate short life than a long passive one.
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"Ella wanted to play hide-and-seek, so I told her to go find her conscience". - N3 age 9

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