One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple
–Jack Kerouac/The Dharma Bums
But why listen to Kerouac, when the Ramones tell us pretty much everything we need to know about living? Kerouac doesn’t even have a good beat, and you can’t really dance to him. Maybe you can. I can’t.
Read, and be amazed. Oh. Yeah. Right.
Read and just Be.
There’s no stoppin’ the cretins from hoppin’
We can all be ourselves, be happy with our lives, and not waste time with worry.
1-2-3-4 cretins wanna hop some more
We can all be diligent and enthusiastic in our daily lives.
4-5-6-7 all good cretins go to heaven
If we live life fully, we may reach Nirvana as our Selves become fully actualized.
(That made me gag a little, but I didn’t say it–the Ramones did!)
Well I don’t care about history
Rock, rock, rock ‘n roll high school
‘Cause that’s not where I wanna be
Leave the past in the past, and live in the present moment.
Don’t wanna be taught to be no fool
Recognize that the validity of a lesson depends in part on who the teacher is, and act accordingly. Know what you want. Want what you have.
Eckhart Tolle could have saved a lot of time if he’d just listened to the Ramones instead of being obtuse. Being obtuse is a lot of work.
The Ramones are simple.
With thanks to the Ramones for both “Cretin Hop” and “Rock ‘n Roll High School” and apologies for possibly perpetuating the use of the semi-offensive term cretin used by the Ramones in their oeuvre. It wasn’t offensive when they wrote it.