champs VS chumps

"There is no end. There is no begining. There is only the passion in life" - the great Italian Director Federico Fellini.

Dinner with Judy at Famous Thai - I really enjoy talking to her, she's one of those people who have fire in their veins, those that bring color to the pattern of life by practically pulsating with the energy of being alive :) I swear, I can practically see her life force crackling. What's great about these kind of people is that they enjoy life and express their love & passion through creative personal styles & work. I love that! I think that's what life is all about, or what it should be about; enjoying the moment, the experience and living every day with an intensity of being :)

There are many people out there who are like that, those that subscribe to a different order. Not for them the mundane, ordinary and absolute nothingness. How does one survive a daily existence of nothingness? How does one wake up every day with no heart, no soul and no imagination? I cannot being an emotionless vampire, with no spark inside. It's what happens when a person succumbs to a rigid and cloistered way of thinking. That's why I always make a point of learning from people who march to a different beat. The ones who take risks, who go out there and actually do something as opposed to merely talking. These are the people who challenge & inspire and they're eveywhere nowadays.

But then, there are also lots of the "others"; you know, the ones who like to make life difficult or miserable, for themselves and everyone around them. Such creature will never know what's it like to feel their soul take flight, to be swept away by an intensity of feeling, to feel the rush of adrenaline that takes one away into the trackless night. Does all this sound extreme? Not at all. Some people spend their entire lives steeped in misery, mired in a depression of their own making. But there is nothing worthy or heroic in that.

Go out and live. I don't have to create great works of arts, I don't even have to be the most stylish or the best at everything. I just need to go out there and get a life. And make it an extraordinary one - in my own eyes if not the world's.