A Mellencamp Monday.

because
Oh yeeeeeah, life goes on
long after the thrill of livin' is gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcJz-x6idd8
My goodness, that's some wicked nostalgia.



Thoughts today: Choice is tainted by our subjected surroundings. I find it peculiar in a beautiful way that some happenings by accident, or slight chance could've never been consciously thought through but could simply happen due to proximity causing the most fortuitous of pair ups with a stranger. Though sometimes in life serendipity seems dormant, so then what? Aren't we all entitled to some happenstance? I certainly believe this to be so. So then what would it mean to alter our contingencies, to take fate and contort it to our whim? With empathy and quick thinking it could easily be done, but should it be? We are forcibly born into a world, forcibly brought up in a house, in a town that we don't decide and that's ineluctable. But as we age, we are the ones who decide what is beautiful and admirable and what is not. We decide what we want and what we don't. But do we, do I, have the right to alter someone else's path to avail my own? Mind you, I do have good intentions.