59th Street Bridge Song

"Slow down, you move too fast.  You've got to make the moment last."
- Simon and Garfunkel

Every moment is worth embracing.  It may not seem that way at first blush, but it can be true if we alter our perceptions.  We need to slow down.  Life is made up of so many avenues for us to follow.  We need to be here at this time, and then over there at that time, and then up here before so and so arrives...it can be dizzying.  Scheduling every portion of our life can only serve to turn life into something to get through as opposed to something to be savored.  Slow down.  Relax.  Think.  Reassess.  Think about Socrates: "An unexamined life is not worth living."  It's clear as Saran wrap - our lives mustn't get away from us.  We need to take our lives into our own hands.  Think about the things that we are living for.  Examine.  Search.  Seek.  Find.

I laughed today.  I spent 15 hours at school.  It was excruciating.  Grades were due by midnight and I had to make sure that I had everything prepared.  I didn't leave the building until 10 p.m.  Ordinarily I would be pretty cranky.  There's nothing redeeming about coming home just to go to bed.  But I laughed.  I was listening to "Atlantis" by Donovan and started thinking about my future.  I have these grandiose plans (more like ideas, or brainstorms) and I began to get excited.  And I realized that my future is whatever I make of it.  I can choose to be dull and ordinary.  I can choose to follow societal norms.  I can choose to be depressed.  I can choose to hold on when there's nothing there.  I can choose to be full of whimsy and joy.  I can choose to walk and seek and love my fellow man.  I can choose to explore.  I can choose to relax and wait.  For a brief few seconds, a blip on the radar screen of my day, it all became clear.  Slow down...you move too fast.

We can feel groovy if we decide to.  Life is a series of unrelated and yet intertwined events all coming together around us.  Each person has his/her own definition of life, as all of these events are perceived in a different way.  It's such a miracle!  No two lives are exactly the same.  Nobody has the exact same thoughts and ideas.  This uniqueness is what makes us.  I am unique.  I will continue to be so.  I've got to make this moment last.  And I can't let anything stand in the way.  Knock down those road blocks.  Erase those impediments.  It's just me...and that's all it needs to be right now.