Technorati and Del.icio.us
Rantings March 21st, 2007
Finally created my technorati and delicious profiles. Writing this entry to claim my blog.
I’m a “Dead Poet”
Rantings March 2nd, 2007
I happen to watch the movie Dead Poets Society tonight. And, it stirred in my heart those thoughts that come and go in moments of passion and inspiration. Those thoughts which I stifle, for I have be trained to a “Realist” and not a “Romantic”. For “Romanticism” cannot pay my bills. For living life the way I want it, will make me “the odd one”. But what if?
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
So shall I start each day with speaking forth these words, that are to be felt at the beginning of each DPS meeting:
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived … I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner…” (61) (Walden, 1854).
