i want to make a blog when i turn 21 about what kind of advice i'd give my kids when I was twenty-one.
Does that make sense?
I want to give my kids the advice of their twenty-one-year-old father.
I'd like to write a book to my future children, while I'm twenty-one-years-old, about life and living.
Of course, it's going to be silly and seriously flawed, and they probably shouldn't actually take most of the advice I'll give, but I think it'll be funny and heart-warming for my kids to read what their dad thought of them before they were even born.
Does that make sense?
Like, why do you want to do this?
Because I like making mental notes about how I am now and thinking to myself, When you're a parent, your kids will think just like you do right now.
I think it'll be something special for them to see what their dad was like when he was younger.
To relate to me as I am now, in addition to as I will be.
Why?
To enlighten them;
to show them that they are not the first to experience turmoil and confusion and anger and horniness and fear and chemically imbalanced joy and withering loneliness:
that they are part of a human chain that is constantly being added to, generation after generation;
that I was once them, and they will one day be me.
In the end, that's okay, because that's the way life is.
Life is so goddamn beautiful
because death is inevitable:
because we are connected to everything only once, and everything is the briefest flash of life.
Monday, February 27, 2012
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That does make sense. Are you actually going to do it?
ReplyDeleteI love the last 3 lines. It makes me want to get off my computer and out of my room and into the world experiencing things.
Yes, I am safe! Thanks for asking. I did get caught in an awesome downpour, but that was more fun than scary.
ReplyDelete"Life is so goddamn beautiful
ReplyDeletebecause death is inevitable: "
That's the most valuable thing to remember in the darkest depths of despair.
Clever idea, I wish someone made something like this for me when I entered the awkward years of youth