Profound conversation

Below is part of a conversation I had one night in April 2003 with a friend about being the 'real' person we can be and not pretend to be what everyone else wants us to be. His first two sentences pretty well puts it all into perspective to me...


Fuck what everybody else thinks. They don't have to suffer in my flesh. They don't have to bear the burden of my mind. They don't have to climb into my coffin...

I'll tell ya what I learned: the first part of life is just preparation for the second part, which is much richer. Finally, my damn drives, my urges, my irrationalities, have died own, and I can live...can choose and not just let my body choose and pretend it was me...