Lots of people have been asking me what have I been doing with myself?
Victor Hugo once said that a man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought, but people don't seem to take that to heart. It's always harder being as stubborn as I am, it'd be easier to just throw the towel in, but it's already taken so much of my pride just to pay for an education that I could receive for free, to jump through the hoops, to do as I'm told. I feel like biting my tongue off to keep me from speaking, it just never works. I am me. I am loud, stubborn, and bursting with creative expression. In short, I can't keep anything to myself. What have I been doing?
I've been creating a band with some friends, I've been recording music, I've been writing music. I've been painting and writing plans about the way I think the world could change for the better. I'm no economist, but I don't think even they really know what is going on. Does anyone know what has been going on? I'd like to ask the men behind the curtain, the ones that must exist but we never see, 'what have YOU been doing with yourself?'. While their exploits, monetary gains, games and crippling elitism is viewed as socially acceptable. Why still isn't art? It's not 'work'. I would agree with them, as Hannah Arendt wrote in her book 'The Human Condition' there is a difference between labour and work. I would prefer Labour any day, by her definitions, a labour that simply fills me up past all reality, with focus and passion so severe that hours flash in dream-like stances in front of my eyes. What have you been doing?
Nothing. As usual.
I'm just continuing to dream for no reason, other than the sake of dreaming.
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