Thursday, August 16, 2007

She is my personal guru

My feelings summed up beautifully by Keith Richards in a 1989 Playboy interview:

“The kid is your little thing, and you think, Goddamn, I helped make that And it's all full of purity and innocence, and it's just smilin' at you and wants to kiss you and hug you, and all it wants to do is just feel you and touch you, and you never felt so loved in your life. It's that bit of love you gave your own parents, the bit you don't remember -- your kid gives that back to you. And you realize, 'I've just been given the first two or three years of my life back.’

“Its a vital piece of knowledge; its like a missin' piece in a jigsaw puzzle. You should keep that, instead of showin' them off - "Hey I made this" -- because they made you. It's a reverse thing, because they give you that little bit, that important bit of living when you absolutely don't know shit about nothing. Everything's a positive. 'Cause once you start to remember things -- from that moment, you've gotta start making judgements. But in that early period, that first year or two, you can be whoever you want to be, the freest bird on this planet, just as if you were born a mole or an eagle, a jackal, a lion, a gnu -- gnash yer teeth -- or anything.
What children do to you is grow you up, make you think, What the hell am I gonna leave behind when I'm gone?”

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