Post No. 3 : Live life slow, and smell the roses.

I am sitting in class and the prof is going over notes that really don’t mean much to be so I’m going to sit here and blog for a bit. On a lighter note of my other two blogs, I’m going to blog about something, quote unquote, inspiring/good/happy.

I was in English class today and the prof mentions how the poem we were reading was very relax and kind of get people to “stop and smell the roses.” We don’t see that very often anymore. We are so fast paced and digitalized; we (young adults) don’t go out as often as we should just to enjoy things around us. It’s actually such a nice feeling to be outside just because and take it slow. Springtime is one of the best times to go out too! The new flowers, new leaves, greener grass, less snow, and so much more just come to life! To really take in nature, take in what we take for granted, gives you a great feeling to see all that you have. All the little things your friends or parents do for you, even strangers! All the little things you own that make life “easier” and so much more. I don’t know where I’m trying to go with this but I do believe that we should honestly stop, smell the roses, look around, and enjoy what we have now, appreciate the little things, and appreciate life.

That’s really all I have for now. I’ll post it later when I get home.

Oh, P.S. Here's the actual poem, all the punctuation and spelling is exactly as it's shown.

Belief & Technique for Modern Prose

By Jack Kerouac

1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

2. Submissive to everything, open, listening

3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house

4. Be in love with yr life

5. Something that you feel will find its own form

6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind

7. Blow as deep as you want to blow

8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind

9. The unspeakable visions of the individual

10. No time for poetry but exactly what is

11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest

12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you

13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition

14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time

15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog

16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye

17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea

19. Accept loss forever

20. Believe in the holy contour of life

21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind

22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better

23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning 

24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it

26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form

27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness

28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better

29. You're a Genius all the time

30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven

Thanks.

-Allison