An old lady with diamonds in her ears looked forlorn and lost. The sparkle of her diamonds did not reflect the sparkle in her eyes, all they showed was despondency. Until she stepped inside the music library.
“I want to walk through life instead of drag through it”, these words of Alanis Morissette drippled in the background. It was a music store that was replete with sounds from various generations.
She muttered to herself another set of lines, And of course it’s not just life and death that are both miscible and immiscible. The same is true for everything: where does the bee start and the wind end? Where does the tree start and the boring beetle end.
The music keeper couldn’t smile and recommended her to put that single earpiece that rested on her slender shoulder and weighed over 10 pounds (to her it felt like placing a boombox on her shoulder). Her visage grew softer and gentler. The despair which had contracted it was followed by a strange smile full of ineffable sweetness and tenderness. Fresh enthusiasm wafted through the store as the music described her spiritual satori, ‘to move freely you must be deeply rooted like a dancer that enthralls everyone including herself with those movements.’
She walked out of the music library singing loudly Patti Page’s words, “Your voice dries up if you don’t use it.”
Travel, accept certain inalienable truths
Respect your elders, don't expect anyone else to support you
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse
But you'll never know when either one will run out
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're forty
It will look eighty-five
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
Wishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off
Painting over the ugly parts and recycling for more than it's worth
But trust me on the sunscreen
Baz Luhrmann (Everybody’s free to wear sunscreen)
