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Dying to the Cause of Living
By Billy | April 19, 2009
This is a real quick update on a topic I posted about a while back. Here is the post!
Fate had this event in store for me — I got to see Birdlips at JMU on friday, and accomplished what I could not accomplish last time I saw them. This is entirely not related to Birdlips, the band, but the previous post and occasion happened to invovle them, so I think it’s neat that they were involved in my life again this time. (If you didn’t know, I freaking LOVE Birdlips)
Let’s just say that at Spaghettifest (see link for details) I had not the strength to live in the moment — I was attached to my preconcieved notions of normalcy as a result of socially imposed ideals. I have broken beyond that barrier and learned to live my life as if…. Well, just to live my life. To Die to a Cause implies (to me) an abandonment of the self. I died for the environmental movement and got arrested for it. (See this post) No longer are my actions for me with respect to the environment. I am a piece of this planet, so insignificant that the things I want don’t really matter. What’s important is that I fight for the causes I feel strongly about. These are the things that will prevail. Last night, at Festival Fest (put on by JMU’s EARTH Club), I died for the cause of LIFE. My puny concerns were no match for my passion for the cause — the cause of living. I lived last night, despite myself.
While at Spaghettifest I kicked myself for not doing so, last night I danced among my fellow humans in a more natural way than the majority of people in America will ever feel. Never have I felt such a feeling — the music pulsing through my naked body as I danced my life away.
Topics: Philosophy, This is my life |
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