Laws Of Life

[Sparx]

yeah, some of you remember me winning that writing contest last year. I asked what everyone's laws of life were. its that time of year again, and i'm curious as to what yours are. so what are your laws of life?

 

[Babyjustrun]

I don't have anything that I follow intensely, but sometimes I'll get inspired by plays or songs.

The other day, I saw Thornton Wilders play Our Town (my school was putting it on). Anyhoo, at the end of the play, in the last act (Death) one of the leads dies. When she dies she sees all the people who have died over the past years (like her mother-in-law) and for some reason realizes that she can revisit past memories. She goes back to her twelfth birthday, and sees that neither her, her mother or father even realize that they're wasting their lives away, not really paying attention to each other. When she asks to go back to the graveyard she says the line in my sig. 'Doesn't anyone ever realize life while they live it?'
Which is, no. A lot of the time we're just going through the motions and just living life without thinking about it at all. And then someday, when we're about to die, we'll realize that we didn't spend enough of it with our loved ones, we didn't know them as well as we should have.

And then some of the lyrics in the song Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel) remind me that living life with too many rules and such can just make it too boring.
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

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