“It sounds simple, I know. But it’s not. Listen, there are a million worlds you could make for yourself. Everyone you know has a completely different one — the woman in 5G, that cab driver over there, you. Sure, there are overlaps, but only in the details. Some people make their worlds around what they think reality is like. They convince themselves that they had nothing to do with their worlds’ creations or continuations. Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed soufflés and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are. But you want to make for yourself a world that is deliberately and meticulously personalized. A theater for your life, if I could put it like that. Don’t live an accident. Don’t call a knife a knife. Live a life that has never been lived before, in which everything you experience is yours and only yours. Make accidents on purpose. Call a knife a name by which only you will recognize it. Now I’m not a very smart man, but I’m not a dumb one, either. So listen: If you can manage what I’ve told you, as `i was never able to, you will give your life meaning.”
~ Jonathon Safran Foer: “If the Aging Magician Should Begin to Believe.”
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A magical quote and powerful lesson…I’m going to stir my flakka with my plomb…Happy Thursday friend.
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Yes magical. I’m with you. Don’t ask me what I thought they (flakka and plomb) meant (and what first came to mind) before I looked them up. 🙂 Have a good day Mimi.
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Laughing..it’s not easy to come up with a non-word for coffee and spoon. Hmm..I don’t think I want to know what first came to mind – it’s too early for me to be embarrassed. Unless I’m at the gym – where I am routinely embarrassed. Ah, I digress. Enjoy your day..
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I did say “don’t ask” right?!:)
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Yeah, you did. My bad. 😉
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Thank you for sharing this quote, David. I enjoyed reading your reply to my latest comments. They made me smile. Especially the one about the nachos. I thought about it this morning on my run. Have a great Thursday!
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Smiling. Have a great day Kristin.
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Nifety neet, and then park it to make it complete.
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Awesome quote!
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I agree Kim. I’m with you.
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Ooooh – Don’t live an accident!!! The deserves a sticky note somewhere in my life. I love that!!!! Great post!
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🙂 Sticky Note. LIKE it.
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Reblogged this on LifeRevelation.
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Thanks for sharing Stephen.
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Your welcome David…and it was an awesome post.
Be encouraged!
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Careful entering another’s world….it could be very dangerous unless you understand and are able to read their clouds
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Yes, I would fully agree with you on this point…
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I have never believed in the “herd” mentality. I agree we are unique creations. Very good post!
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Thank you. I closer to the herd than not, but I’m working on this…:)
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Ciao from Italy David, yes I agree with “don’t live an accident” I believe that none of us is an accident we are here for a purpose, ah but the trick is to find out what that is….
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Italy. Wow. Can I be just a bit envious! And yes, the trick is to find that purpose…and often that changes over time as we grow, age and find what was important before is no longer important today. Enjoy your trip Tina.
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Reblogged this on This Touching Life and commented:
Loved this post yesterday. Make your life your own.
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Thank you Kamela.
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Now that’s the sort of thing they should teach in school. For the majority of people, for each decade that passes, there’s increased knots to unravel.
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Yes, they should. However, we’re not even getting the basics across to our kids (Reading, Writing, Math, Sciences)…not sure we are prepared to move into this plane…
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Okay, now you’re stuck in my head, I keep coming back to this post, you may really be on to seomthing here,
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🙂 Me too Katrina…
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Missed this first time around. (Thank you Tumblr!) “Live a life that has never been lived before… ” That will be going up on my bulletin board. Thanks again for the inspiration.
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Thanks LaDona…I too, like you, found this quote to be sharp but inspiring…
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