happy birthday
Jul. 21st, 2017 10:50 am
I've experienced a quarter of a century
Sometimes I think I dislike getting older because what's expected of you seems to increase. There's more pressure to have some goal, to have some mission.
But simply living, being alive, it doesn't have that feeling.
The taste of food, the tickle of wind, to fall asleep happy, to sneeze, all this is fine.
That sort of happy existence is something I tasted once when I was younger. At 19, I was happy to be on the farm, to not make a single penny. But when it was over, I was bored, and I made the decision to leave it behind for Tokyo, to dance with greed. To go on my mission.
But I will return someday.
To use all five senses, and to share it with others, that is living. Certainly, without that, the spirit would fade away in no time.
To be alive is all I am certain of, and I want to live freely.