dreams and private myths

Jonsie sat alone by a campfire taking drags off the butts of spent cigarettes. He was trying to fit a text message into the prescribed 160 character, but couldn’t make sense of the words.

The music was turned up beyond the limits of city ordinances and he knew that he was playing on borrowed time. He started out saying that “I believe in those perfect moments where everything is beautiful, everything is illuminated.” But then had no faith in his words or rather, he wished he was writing it about something else.

Lushness in his own lyrics lambasted his head; heavy weight thoughts punched him to the ropes:

“We are all laying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
-Oscar Wilde

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
-Bob Dylan

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. You would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if you didn’t want to, but if you were sane than you had to fly them. If you fly them you are crazy and don’t have to; but if don’t want to you are sane and have to fly them.”
-Joseph Heller

“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
-Joseph Campbell

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
-Lewis Carroll

“A sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

“I’ve never had a humble opinion in my life. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?”
-Joan Baez

“Everything is clearer when you’re in love.”
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
“Time you enjoyed wasting was not time wasted.”
-John Lennon