Day 58: February 27, 2009

Question 49:
If you could be brilliant in one subject, which would you choose?

Responses:

• I'd be brilliant in Eastern philosophy, or, more specifically, the application of it to my life and to those around me. I believe that all the answers re: how to live a spiritual, loving life can be found in the East, in Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, etc. I would be a master of these philosophies, apply them to my own life, and teach, by example, all those who'd be willing to listen.
• Digital marketing. Because then I would make millions of dollars like one of my friends did when he sold his company! Can I cheat and add another? History. Actually I was really good at history. Because knowledge of the past is power and because “Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
• History, because it's my least favorite

Song:
The Box, by Johnny Flynn

Lyrics:
Living in a box by the rails
Only thing you use, you don't fail
When you live in a box by the rails
Don't comb your hair, don't comb your tail

Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me holding, leave my soul
Leave me nothing I don't need at all
Nothing I don't need at all

Yay from the bins, in the parks
Made off with the raps after dark
Never left a trail, never made his mark
When he gave me the raps after dark
Calling all his friends, never made him sad
With all the things he never had
It only made them feel so bad
For having the things he never had

Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me holding, leave my soul
Leave me nothing I don't need at all
Nothing I don't need at all

If you stay in that box overnight
Don't get out til it gets light
There's not much lost of the secret life
It's never gone wrong and it's never gone right
Now some more flowers grow
The palm gets eaten by a few more throws
An old man's box is full of bones
See his footprints see his stones

Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me holding, leave my soul
Leave me nothing I don't need at all
Nothing I don't need at all

Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me holding, leave my soul
Leave me nothing I don't need at all
Nothing I don't need at all