let it ride

@cielo watching lisa shaw....
blue lights, beautiful faces, beautiful music.
Beautiful ideas flowing inside a designed moment.

so clearly...

so clear to me...

took so long, to find out.
all the things that happened all around you.
thought you could see, even though it was clear to me.
tomorrow is a new day, free from all the things you didnt say.
better things coming, learn to let it go sometimes.

hope for you see, you want to put it all behind you.
missing something, searching for the strength indside.
finding a new way, i am here to show you my way.
better things coming, so learn to let it go sometimes.

when it all comes down, let it ride,
when it all comes down, let it ride,
when it all comes down, let it ride,
when it all comes down, let it ride,

hope for you see, you want to put it all behind you,
missing something, searching for the strength indside.
finding a new way, i'm here to show you my way.
better things coming, so learn to let it go sometimes.

when it all comes down, let it ride,
when it all comes down, let it ride,
when it all comes down, let it ride,
when it all comes down, let it ride,

so clear....

so clear....

It becomes a habit where every ideal needs to be personified to become real in my mind. It helps the moment become more distinctive and more creative. It is one of the few ways in which a memory can be seeded to blossom into something greater than what was experienced. There is warmth in beauty in moments, if you allow yourself to experience them. And the way you thought you smiled when you experienced that moment is the veil and overall character of that memory, regardless if you acutally smiled or not.

Bishop Connop Thirlwall, once said, "In our personal lives we eagerly pursue objects which prove worthless; but we also dread changes which fulfill our most ardent wishes.” Only when something becomes part of the past, can we become disembedded enough to understand if a wish was selfish or rewarding. The point is that we will never know exactly what we want, we can only want the image or idea of that dream, we can never truely judge if the possibility can bring us closer to our dreams.

Freudian dream analysis is noted in dreams meaning the opposite of what they represent in reality. Can we then become closer to living our dreams by doing the opposite of what we think we should be doing?

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-- Scott Adams ---

brief history of irony

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."
--- Mark Twain

The best definition of irony is by Edwin Whipple who said: "Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment." It is the art of saying two things without saying anything at all. Some philosophers such as Demosthenes even deemed the ironist as an even less respectable liar: he understated his own powers specifically for the purpose of escaping responsibility. And even in the ancient days they used a fox to represent irony.

However, the original model of irony did stem from Socrates. The first perspective on irony assumed the role of an ignorant man lost in wonder at the wisdom of others. The beauty in the perspective is how Socrates was remembered. An earl of Shaftesbury described Socrates as, "a perfect character; yet... veiled, and in a cloud... chiefly by reason of a certain exquisite and refined raillery which belonged to his manner, and by virtue of which he could treat the highest subjects, and those of commonest capacity... together,... both the heroic and the simple, the tragic and the comic.” He was known as a man who could talk to anyone from any walk of life; below or above on any existent social ladder.

Aristotle said in the Ethics, “the boaster is a man who pretends to have creditable qualities that he does not possess, while conversely the self-depreciator disclaims or disparages good qualities that he does possess. Midway between them is the straight forward sort of man.” Of the two evils defined, he preferred irony because it was less flashy. He even went on so much to say that irony was "gentlemanly."

People have also described Shakespeare to have been an ironist. He was the first author to introduce self-deception and hypocrisy and assumed all intelligent people were relativists.

This notion seems to havebeen behind Norman Brown's “law of irony” by whichit could be shown that the “partially disclaimedthought is Swift's own thought”


Randolph Bourne believed that since the ironist does not absolutely reject any experience but is constantly contrasting and criticizing and moving on to new experiences, he has an “intense feeling of aliveness” and“the broad honest sympathy of democracy”

Freud asserted that irony as saying the opposite of what one means parallels the dream, which “delights in representing a pair of opposites by means of one and the same composite image” or “changes an element from the dream-thoughts into its opposite.”

But perhaps my favorite rationale is:

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
-- Henry David Thoreau

Is it ironic when the point of your life becomes the dream you've always wanted? Does the dream die? or does life become that dream?