Comments on: Song for a Sleeping Girl http://dearstranger.net/2008/09/19/sleeping-girl/ (My heart shouldn't be a terminal disorder...) Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:09:46 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Deleriously Happy Traveler http://dearstranger.net/2008/09/19/sleeping-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Deleriously Happy Traveler Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:24:56 +0000 http://stranger.thebackwardchild.com/2008/09/19/sleeping-girl/#comment-7 The cure for the emptiness of days, and source of courage to face the days ahead (which are never empty until they are made so), is to take complete charge of one's life and experience the world beholden to no one. I do this by living with nothing but what I can carry in a backpack as a vagrant wanderer, supporting myself entirely by my own ingenuity and without money or a need for it (mostly). It might involve asking for help, sometimes. It might involve committing crimes (okay it definitely involves at least a little of that). It might involve sacrificing some of our society's pre-conceived notions about what a "proper" way to live is. But I'll be damned if sleeping in a field and eating dumpstered avocados didn't cure my hopelessness like nothing I ever imagined could. The cure for the emptiness of days, and source of courage to face the days ahead (which are never empty until they are made so), is to take complete charge of one’s life and experience the world beholden to no one. I do this by living with nothing but what I can carry in a backpack as a vagrant wanderer, supporting myself entirely by my own ingenuity and without money or a need for it (mostly).

It might involve asking for help, sometimes. It might involve committing crimes (okay it definitely involves at least a little of that). It might involve sacrificing some of our society’s pre-conceived notions about what a “proper” way to live is. But I’ll be damned if sleeping in a field and eating dumpstered avocados didn’t cure my hopelessness like nothing I ever imagined could.

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