Originally Posted by: earthman buckCall me a young fool if you will, but I still think dying young is the way to go. You older gents seem to be liking your age just fine, and that's cool, but I just can't see myself ever hitting that point. The oldest I can imagine myself is 17, and that's how old I am now.
This next birthday is gonna be goddamn weird.
Wrong, my so young friend, so very, very wrong.
For many years, I could not imagine living past the age of 30. When I was 32, I rode my motorcycle into the side of a car that should not have been there. When I awoke in the hospital, I could not believe that I was still alive. By my calculation, I was 2 full years 'past due'.
But life goes on, until it ends. And anytime it ends, it seems too soon. There is always still more that could have been accomplished; always still more that could have been shown to those who follow.
You are still very young. And already you have shown those who are younger even than you that there are lessons they can learn from you; unpleasant things that can be avoided, and good things that can be cherished.
The Who are not the only band that has expressed the sentiment that "I hope I die before I get old.", and because of that sentiment, only two of them remain. What have we lost because Keith Moon and John Entwistle are no longer with us? Can you possibly argue that the world is better off because John Bonham died young? Brian Jones? Jim Morrison? Janis Joplin? Jimi Hendrix? The music scene is littered with the corpses of the prematurely dead. In my recent interview for the GT Newsletter, I expressed a desire to be able to give due credence to "The Mesiah Will Come Again" by Roy Buchanan, who died much, much, too soon. My own life is all too accurately reflected by Billie Holiday's "God Bless The Child", but the fact remains that any day that starts with you waking up above ground is a whole lot better than the alternative!
Yes, you're a fool! Worse than that; you're a damn fool! You would throw away the one gift that all of us are given at birth - LIFE itself.
**** you!
**** you and all who are stupid enough to buy into that line of thought!
That path leads to premature death, and since death awaits all of us, this line of thought is equal to unnecessary surrender.
**** you! :mad: