2 cool quotes, 1 cool idea

Kurt Vonnegut

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

-In loneliness, Kurt Vonnegut

I'll tell you what a human soul is, It's the part of you that knows when your brain isn't working right.

Galapagos, Vonnegut

To be one with the madness and chaos of life is just as important as being one with the natural romance found in our universe and the former seems seriously underdeveloped in our society and culture. Maybe that's why we have so many therapists and Tom Cruise's jumping off couches!

Maybe that's also why John Eldridge supports being a warrior before a lover in his stages of masculinity. If done in that order a warrior will deal with some of life's toughest challenges first and then as a lover will be more able during calamity.

But it's not a question of which is better, warrior or lover, they are both equally important jobs covering equally important life elements.

In closing, I have a crush on every girl.

Thank you.

Why Lauryn Hill is cool (as are idealists)

I'm a fan of her music but her style is really what's "dope". I've really been into this idea that there are 16 types of people out there, check out

http://keirsey.com/matrix.html

It pretty much makes sense that Ms. Hill is an idealist, being apart of only 10% of the population. Generally, idealists are highly concerned with moral and ethical issues combined with a personality that constantly seeks identity. AS SEEN in these clips from a recent Essence interview:



Hill: I don’t think I ever handled celebrity. For a period of time I had to step away entirely. At 23, you don’t know how to handle that in a diplomatic manner, especially when everybody around you has been affected by the money, the fame, the attention. Celebrity itself becomes an addiction. One of my hopes for artists today is that they don’t get trapped in images that don’t really reflect who they are. Everybody is sort of bound to this supercool, supermature, superperfect, superconsistent image. It looks great on the shelf but it can also hurt people, and stunt their growth, because their image is growing, but their persons are not.





Hill: It’s really about the Black woman falling in love with her own image of beauty. I know that I’ve been in a fight to love myself and experience reciprocity in a relationship. I thought that a perfectly reciprocal relationship was an impossibility. That’s that “Black woman is the mule of the world” thing. It says she can’t get what she deserves, no matter how dope she is. And, you know, you have to go through the fear. You do have to do something with the insecurity, ghosts and demons that have been programmed in us for centuries. You have to master the voices, all the insecure and inadequate men who put garbage in a woman’s mind, soul, spirit and psyche just so they can use her. You’ve got to break free of that crap. I didn’t see many of the women who came before me fight that war successfully. And when you don’t see it, you don’t know if it can be done. But that’s what faith is for.

Essence: And love?

Hill: I’m realizing now that you have to get love, period. Love is my food. Truth is my oxygen. I need those things. I’m sure there have been times I tried to deny myself love by staying in something safe or convenient. By the time I realized that that was not going to work, I was literally starving for oxygen. Now I realize that satisfaction, and the ability to affirm it, is my birthright. Happiness, joy, love, peace are all things I’m entitled to so long as I don’t compromise or settle for something less. --I feel the problems she has had with "celebrity" are nothing new for idealists. For a lot of idealists, our life is one big piece of art and one giant idea that never ends. Also for idealists life can sometimes be akin to a spiritual soap opera! I think that the reason few people understand her behaviour is because few people realize the implicit differences in people.

Plus she's married to one of Bob Marley's sons and has had four of his grandchildren. That in general will tend to add some cool points.

http://www.essence.com/essence/themix/entertainment/0,16109,1149478-1,00.html