Where's your will to be weird?
Jim MorrisonRead
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.
Interpretation
Life's extremes are where we find the most significance.
Jim Morrison suggests that the most meaningful moments in life occur during our highest and lowest experiences. These extremes define our existence and provide valuable lessons, while the mundane 'in between' moments lack the same depth and emotional resonance.
In practice
In a speech at a motivational retreat discussing the journey of life.
Where's your will to be weird?
I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.
I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
Donβt just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Donβt just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.
... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
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