I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign you’ve been looking for.
You were meant to read these words.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Stuff That Actually Matters
Not until you understand that to want is not to need and that love is meant for people, not things.
Insightful platitudes that you think of as you zoom around in your expensive sports car, and upload to your blog via your bleeding-edge smartphone? If it's for Truth, Beauty, and Art, well hell, lease the motherfucker!
Not until you understand that to want is not to need and that love is meant for people, not things.
beautiful, as always.
ReplyDeleteyou always know the right things to say.
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing, Iain. I swear.
ReplyDeleteI don't work for money. Money does not work for me.
ReplyDeleteInsightful platitudes that you think of as you zoom around in your expensive sports car, and upload to your blog via your bleeding-edge smartphone? If it's for Truth, Beauty, and Art, well hell, lease the motherfucker!
ReplyDelete"to want is not to need"
ReplyDeleteI hope I will realise this one day.I hope it's soon.
@Chop Logic:
ReplyDeleteIt's true that I have those things, which is why this is a handy reminder that they aren't that important.
I write this for me as much as I write it for you.
Simply and beautifully put. Thank you. SeeSense.
ReplyDeleteUnderstood.
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