Arts Living in Heaven
posted by on October 19 at 16:36 PM
I’m in a cafe on Lummi Island. Bob Marley is playing on the stereo. The chorus of his song: “Think you are in heaven/But you are living in hell.” The subject of the song, a rich person, believes he/she is in a rosy situation, but in actuality he/she is living in the mud. The problem with Marley’s assertion? If you believe you are living heaven, and live like you are heaven, you are in heaven. If you believe you are poor, and live like you are poor, you are poor. Condemning the rich for living like the rich is empty. luxury has always been an illusion.
Luxury is not an illusion. I would rather have a nice house than a crappy one. I would rather eat a fantastic meal than a poorly made one. So would you.
True Luxury is being able to pontificate in a consistently stupid blithering manner, getting it published, AND being paid for it.
No, I'm going to have to agree with Charles on this one.
luxury is a relative measurement, not a standard that one either is above or below.
I agree. It all starts from where you come from.
Quoting Marley, eh? Please be more cliche in the future. This originality is really eating away at my soul.
Luxurious living is luxurious living. Thinking you deserve it, that you'll never lose it, believing that it makes you a better person or that will make one bit of difference when you are dead is the illusion.
I'm with you all the way on this one, Charles.
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Well said, Al.
Hello Charles, glad to see you are still pissing off hipsters, no matter where you are. We've moved to Portland. Do stop by when you're back in the states.
It was pretty frickin' wet in heaven this weekend, wasn't it?
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