journal-12/18/99

12/18/99

Life is hard. The briskness in the air says as much. Can't you feel it when you breathe? The question is, until you realize how hard it really is-- until you take an honest, sitcom-free look at the world around you-- can you really love me (and everyone else on this rock, for that matter) ?

Probably not.

(Well said, Jeremy Haub)

Sorry Jeremy, but I had to borrow that from you. It really resonated within me and I had to have it. Life is hard, and sometimes we think it's too hard to bear... until we just "dig in, rock hard," as my old high school band director used to say right before a competition. "Take no prisoners." Sometimes I wonder if he was talking about the competition, or about life in general.

But then, band was his life, so it was probably a little of both.