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i am posting this speaking into a phone. not typing, speaking. i am not a huge technology fan but this is pretty amazing

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Throwing Away the Alarm Clock

I heard this poem by Charles Bukowski on the radio yesterday, and even if I'm not a huge fan of his, something made me want to post this, so here it is:


"My father always said, "early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy
and wise."

it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house
and we were up at dawn to the smell of
coffee, frying bacon and scrambled
eggs.

my father followed this general routine
for a lifetime and died young, broke,
and, I think, not too
wise.

taking note, I rejected his advice and it
became, for me, late to bed and late
to rise.

now, I'm not saying that I've conquered
the world but I've avoided
numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some
common pitfalls
and have met some strange, wonderful
people

one of whom
was
myself—someone my father
never
knew."

what do you think?
Mahalo

Where do I sign up?

The other night I was hanging out with a friend, we were talking about plastic surgery (i know, this topic seems to be coming up a lot). I have a hard time understanding it, unless there's a serious condition that needs to be fixed, but I was happy to hear that she feels the same way, and I know that her husband (he's one of my best friends) couldn't care less for that stuff.
After a while we concluded that, for our age (I'm 41, she's a little younger), we can't really complain about our bodies, we're in pretty good shape, we don't have to take any meds regularly, and our bodies still let us do most of what we love. I think that she joked saying: if they told me 20 years ago that I'd be in this shape now, I would have said "where do I sign up for that?".
This got me thinking: I could probably say the same, and it applies to many different aspects of my life: I have a good job and a good salary (that I complain about, of course :)), I live in a nice house, pretty close to the ocean, I can surf regularly, I have a beautiful family, I'm pretty healty.
And don't even get me started on the life I've had so far...I've experienced stuff that most people only dream about, I've seen a lot of places, met a lot of people...my existence has been rich and interesting, with ups and downs, of course, but I 'touched' a pretty wide spectrum of experiences, emotions, people. Not much to complain about, really, but sometimes I seem to forget and start whining about what I don't have.
Well, in those moments I should think back to the early part of this journey, imagine that boy that I was 20 years ago, walk up to him and say: "you know, in 20 years you could be this man".
I bet his response would be "where do I sign up?"

mahalo