Autos of beauty
I was ME in this truck!
For today:
At one time I was me. I
have heard from my youth: “Be yourself, everyone else is taken. So I tried to be. I remember a movie, “Rebel without A Cause.”
The coolest dude ever was the shy/reluctant star, James Dean. Every boy I knew
wanted to be him, and thinking they were being themselves. LOL He was the ‘coolest’.
He died young in an
auto accident. James Dean was a good race car driver. Film producers always
stated in his contracts, NO RACECAR driving until filming was over During the
filming of ‘The Giant’ he traded his Triumph
for a Porsche 550. He was driving it to his first race after
filming in the Porsche, when he collided with another vehicle and was killed,
cause of death a broken neck.
While everyone else was
trying to be James Dean movie star, James was trying to be himself, he loved
cars and speed. He died at 24. A week before his death a friend commented, “Jimmy,
you drive this thing, you will be dead in it within a week.”
Being ‘YOURSELF’ can be
precarious. AT times you must do it in
secret. LOL
I must admit, watching
‘other’ people who claimed to be ‘finding themselves’, can be confusing. During
the Peace-nik- flower-child times I thought folks were silly. I am still trying to
wrap my mind around the period of ‘jailing’ or ‘pants on the ground’ time. THEN
THE piercing or enlarging the ‘zero’ earlobes gets next to me. I was raised NOT
to be tattoo’d, I was ‘Being Me’ and got a USMC emblem on my upper arm. DAD-gummit
I was grown (17), Of course I was brave
and hid it from mama!
It makes me sad when
someone (IMO) has everything to live for & does something stupid. I can think of
many, but John Denver comes to mind, dying
in his experimental Rutan Long-EZ plane. Anyone, but especially those with apparently so much to live
for, surprises me, gambling with their lives to be themselves.
There is a long list of
famous youths who gambled and died..
I have no idea where this
is going but I am stopping. This 81 year old man might be banned by NASCAR while
trying to enter a ’55 Chevy in the Daytona speed trials. Maybe I am just
remembering what it’s like to be ME!
We all wanna ‘be our-own-self’
at least one time before the Bell tolls! LOL
Nite
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8 comments:
It's one to be yourself as long as it docent hurt you. I don't think we need to put on aires and pretend to be anyone else. Although many do, I'm just me but don't take many chances, I want to be around a few more years.
So many, especially young people, think they are immortal and will live forever. So sometimes they take big risks and risks I certainly wouldn't want to do! I don't get the earlobe thing either for enlarging it. I did hear it made good money for plastic surgeons when people didn't want the enlarged holes any more and tried to have them cosmetically fixed.
betty
Well I think in some ways it is good to be yourself - but in other ways - it can be selfish - true?
I agree with Betty: So many of our young people believe themselves to be bullet-proof. I've never cared for high speeds - even when I drove a Corvette I'd take a good bit of teasing because I refused to 'let it loose.' Heartbreaking when you hear of a young person's untimely death from sheer recklessness. But too, the not-so-young - I'm thinking of Houdini. That sort of adrenaline I just don't get.
I think that being yourself can be very difficult as we have to be responsible too and they don't always go well together. It's good to be yourself as long as you don't hurt anyone else. I find it hard to understand the real me, but I was raised in a strict home and had to obey a lot of strict rules and values. I think I would have been different if my family was less strict, but I am pleased in some ways that my parents were strict as it has always made me honest and that is probably the real me. There are a lot of people these days who do not know what truth and honesty are, and some of them are leaders of our countries.
You might have some spam there, Jack! lol
You are so right- it takes time to 'find yourself' sometimes. Especially when you are raised to be what someone else wants you to be. There is a fine balance between being yourself and ignoring 'niceties' and what one should really do.
As a people pleaser, it took me a long time to stand up for what I wanted to do and to say NO sometimes to doing/being what someone else wanted me to do/be.
Great post. Diana
It isn't always easy to be true to yourself, but it's important if it's important to you. I do my best to be true to myself...I do try to be/do God-pleasing but I Know I don't always. Life gets hard but we do what we can in the moment. It is sad the time wasted being someone you are not. Good one Jack. You always make me think.
love n' hugs from up north where I just cannot warm up today. Stay YOU
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