I notice a lot of people are compelled to the rope around here. And when I read their words it's usually about how life has been cruel to them. And the fear that life will continue to be cruel to them. But the bright side to that is, these are problems that can be identified and addressed. Someone did you wrong. Okay, what do you want? Some kind of justice? Revenge? To forget the pain? To have a life where that won't happen again? These are all things you can work toward. A bad life or a trauma or an injustice, that's a palpable thing you can acknowledge and work on solutions for.
But to have no life, or to have missed out on an experience, how do you solve that aside from going out and having that experience? Sounds easy, but what if it's an experience you can't experience anymore? "I never went to a concert." Okay, go to a concert. But what about "I never got to go to Woodstock?" Harder to solve. Because there is no Woodstock anymore. It's gone. Those days are over. And you can keep going to other concerts, and I'm not saying don't go to other concerts, but whose gonna say "Whoops, I was wrong, I guess your life does suck" when you've been to concert after concert and all you can think about is "Damn, I bet Woodstock would've been a lot more fun than this concert?"
But to have no life, or to have missed out on an experience, how do you solve that aside from going out and having that experience? Sounds easy, but what if it's an experience you can't experience anymore? "I never went to a concert." Okay, go to a concert. But what about "I never got to go to Woodstock?" Harder to solve. Because there is no Woodstock anymore. It's gone. Those days are over. And you can keep going to other concerts, and I'm not saying don't go to other concerts, but whose gonna say "Whoops, I was wrong, I guess your life does suck" when you've been to concert after concert and all you can think about is "Damn, I bet Woodstock would've been a lot more fun than this concert?"
