life experience

Dorothy 2022-03-20 09:02:15

Humans have so many problems to solve. Money is only a very small part of it. People have to figure out themselves. your own spirit, your own heart. The problems you have to face at every age. Reconcile with yourself. With his mother, his son. what you want to pursue. Skateboard, make ceramic bowls, fix cars, listen to punk or rock. Not loving your mother, sick, cancer. Constantly changing girlfriends, getting married, getting divorced, getting married again, having children. In short, life is more like a process of experience. The body is just a vehicle on which the soul is attached to experience the process of life. Your favorite shoes, your underwear, the books you read, pictures of your mom, your birth control pills, that's what makes you. You keep looking for people you can love, you hope to find security in them, and finally you realize that you need to live with your insecurities and fears. This is the meaning of life. Embarrassment, poverty, love, and pain are all experiences. It's like there is a God's perspective, watching you silently, but the current feeling is so strong that you are immersed in it, and you don't realize that this is only part of the life experience.

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  • Jamie: I thought that was just the beginning of a new relationship with her, where she'd really tell me stuff. But maybe it was never really like that again. Maybe that was it.

    Dorothea: In March of 1999, I'll start to feel tired and confused. When I finally go to the doctor, he will say that the cancer in my lungs had already travelled to my breast and brain. I'll try to teach Jamie what to do with my stocks, but my instructions will be impossible to understand.

    Julie: Abbie will take me to Planned Parenthood. And I will go on the pill. I will go to NYU and lose touch with Jamie and Dorothea, and I will stop talking to my mom, I will fall in love with Nicholas, we will move to Paris, and choose not to have children.

    Abbie: I will stay in Santa Barbara. In just two years, I'll marry Dave. A month after I get married Carlotta will die. A week later, Max will die too. I will work out of my garage and show in local galleries. Against my doctor's advice, I will get pregnant, and by the time I'm thirty I'll have two boys.

    William: I'll live with Dorothea for another year. Then I'll open a pottery store in Sedona Arizona. I will marry Laurie, a singer-songwriter. We'll get divorced in a year. Then I'll meet Sandy, we will marry, and I will continue to do my pottery.

    Jamie: My mom will meet Jim in 1983, they'll be a couple until she dies. On her birthday each year, he will buy her a trip on a biplane. Years after she's gone I'll finally get married and have a son. I'll try to explain to him what his grandmother was like - but it will be impossible.

  • Jamie: [to his mom] You know, when the firemen come... people don't usually invite them for dinner.