Addendum to "It was a good day to die"

Hmm. As I finished the last post, one of the key songs in my life came on (I'm using Windows Media Player, by the way): Xanadu. Here's an interesting line:

"A place, where nobody dared to go."

It happens to be the very first. Let's take my "dare to live" axiom to the next step. What if we did dare to go ... well, to "Xanadu." Not the ancient pleasure dome depicted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, not the planet in my book, not even the roller disco studio. Xanadu is defined by Webster as "an idyllic place."

And to get there, you have to dare to go there. And you have to make it happen. "And now, open your eyes and see, what we have made is real."

I remember a saying from when I was in Eckankar (look it up), and it's one of the things I find to be true: Only the brave and courageous will find the kingdom of God.

And the pure of heart. "The love, the echoes of long ago, you needed the world to know..."

And the dreamers. And the perseverant (stubborn). "The dream, that came through a million years, and lived on through all the tears..."

So, what picture does this portray? The man--or woman--who will finally live life to its fullest will be:

1. Courageous and bold.
2. Creative and imaginative.
3. Pure of heart--or at least charitable.
4. A dreamer.
5. Stubborn as a mule.

Do we know anybody like this? Let's think... Oh! I know of one! There was this black kid...nobody particularly special, just like you or me. Nobody special. People just thought he had crazy ideas. Ideas of equality amongst all humankind (creative and charitable). He had a dream, and he proclaimed it to the world (bold dreamer). And he wasn't going to take "no" for an answer (stubborn).

Who is this person? Well, that's the million dollar question. There are others out there like that. A carpenter's son, who wreaked havoc in the temple (bold), loved all his fellows,--even the whores (pure of heart, and I refer to Mary Magdalene here), preached love and an ideology of love and understanding to everyone he met (dreamer and creative), and would NOT back down, even after being scourged and nailed to a cross (stubborn as hell).

Who is this?

You don't have to be religious. You don't have to be an activist. You don't even have to be famous. Just life your life to it's fullest, and worry not about the future; for it will come in its own due time, and only then will you have to deal with it.

And that, everyone, is what I mean by the Road. And I guess the Song of the Year is going to be (as if you didn't guess) "Xanadu," by ELO and Olivia Newton John. Perhaps it isn't all about roller skates and miniskirts...

Happy Memorial Day, and Carpe Diem!