I Can See Forever
I’ve not concealed my love for Rock N Roll, that music of the people, admittedly a cultural feature of my generation. Nietzsche said that life would hardly be worth living without music.
“Without music, life would be a mistake.. I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
This song fills me with a sense of rapture whenever I hear it broadcast on the radio. Indeed it is quite impossible to express, or better to discover who I am in isolation. The “I” is more perfectly composed, and expressed when there is a “we.”
Is it possible to inhabit paradise, to reach that state of complete fulfillment, self completion? I do not know, but I doubt that perfection exists in this world. “Almost paradise,” the stroke of good fortune that one may approach paradise in company with another human, one with whom a relationship has been synthesized over time – is a remarkable outcome.
This post is for Laura. We hold the future in our hands.