he not busy being born is busy dying

or so the saying goes, and everybody is at a different
moment in their life, we all have had to
look back in one way or another and asked ourselves
what makes us who we are or what we will be.

who does this compare to and does that even matter?
everything in life is cyclical, and the more we realize
this the more we find out that some of the main problems
we encounter is when 2 different people are at
different cyclical moments in their life.

where we have been
and what we have done is what defines us
for that particular moment. It is a give and take
one person is at the lowest of lows while someone else
is holding up a candle of light and love
but at some time in life
one needs to as the graduate so eloquently phrase

"get off your ass and start to take
some stock in yourself benjamin"

skip back a few scenes and you get the immediate response

"well sir I think I am just drifting here in the pool..."

couldn't have said better myself, for both quotes,
this is how I feel all the time, a mixture of the two

nobody knows exactly what is
going on with someone at any given
moment
and if someone needs
to feel the sound of quiet water
drifting beneath him than so be it,
it maybe just as important,
if not more important than anything
he has ever done in his whole life

to embrace an open star
to find eyelids lost in light, looking to fall
to open your hand and hold a million drops of rain

to feel stars dance on your fingertips
and hear words disappear into memories

to huddle neath a doorstep and
finally find a chance to sleep and rest
to lie craddled in the fetal position
grasping warmth and life by "any means necessary"
as they say

we are defined by what we do and where
we have been
and this may be radically different at any
given moment of time to different people

its how we utilize these moments that
separates us from one another