School

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Having graduated about five years ago I cannot say I learned anything from
> High School...

... having graduated a long, long time ago, from a high school even
closer down the street now than it was when I went there, I learned,
stay in school as long as possible afterward (which I DIDN'T do, so
...) ...

.. I woke up shaking thinking this this morning: do @ LEAST something
worth doing, maybe something yo actually enjoy, even, each and every
day (if not each and every second). DON'T live every day as if it
might be yr last (i.e., rifling through Kubler-Ross's stages of dying
as if they're a Rolodex, or an animation flipbook), but as if yr gonna
have to relive it on yr deathbed.  This, I suppose, is my take on
Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, not so much as to affirm whatever the
hell it is you do, but to do whatever it is you can affirm in the end
(I'm Catholic, but I also can't help but think that "do unto others"
is, pace Gilles Deleuze, the kind of logic that makes sadists out of
masochists, so ...).

Do what I say, not what I do.  I make mistakes so y'all don't have to.
 Trust me, y'all don't want to end up like me, much less like how I'm
going to end up, so ...