Wednesday 03 Mar 2004
Breakfast in California
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re
Acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!
At night, when all the world’s asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.
— “The Logical Song”, Supertramp
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i’ve been experiencing the ups and downs of life in full form lately. i don’t seem to learn anything unless its thrown in my face. the most interesting thing about this lesson is that its more like an indepth study of a lesson i have already learned. i thought i already learned. it reminds me of when i start my trig homework thinking i understand it, but by the end i really understand it and in so many different ways than when i began. i’m beginning to understand that life really is just a constant learning process, and that i will make mistakes, but i have to keep myself open to learn from them. i have said this so many times before, but it means more to me this time. i understand it better, but i know i don’t understand it fully. oh, and just because no body ever quotes rilke:
you are so young, so before all beginning, and i want to beg you, as much as i can, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps you will learn then, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
resolve to be always beginning - to be a beginner!
Comment by Mimi Flynn | Thursday 11 Mar 2004, 10:31 am
That song by Supertramp is actually A LOGICAL SONG… Great band.
Comment by Matt | Wednesday 28 Apr 2004, 6:21 pm