Friday, February 3, 2012

and good luck at it

I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave’s a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that’s what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it. Joan Didion in a commencement address at UC Riverside via Inspiracioh

7 comments:

Heather said...

She's got the cred for this, for sure!

erica lorraine scheidt said...

for sure.

som said...

this is so good.

xoxo

danica said...

So good. Joan Didion is amazing.

ashley said...

very inspiring words...

thanks for your sweet comment btw ;)

m said...

you ask me how my life is different? this is how. i'm not enduring it anymore.

which is another way of saying: happy valentine's day.

louise and nivaldo de lima said...

That's beautiful. A good one to reflect on today and every day.