Yeah, it's the sort of poem that makes you die a little when you read it. It just opens up the well of sorrow that is transcience. Time is such a disease.
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Yeah, it's the sort of poem that makes you die a little when you read it. It just opens up the well of sorrow that is transcience. Time is such a disease.
makes me feel like I'm slowly dying....
Well, aren't we?
Yes, but I hate to realise that.
Jay, what's the difference between living and dying? The moment you're born. You start living. You start dying. The two are synonymous.
shoot me, please.
Apparently sloegin knows an awful lot about guns. Get him. I don't think I could shoot somebody. Why would you want me to anyway? [I'm sure I'm a terrible shot. It would be slow and painful]
ok, I know. I think being alive entails a feeling of being free, that you don't have if you're dying. Somebody can be alive, and feel like they're dying because they can't do what they want. Similarly, somebody on the brink of death can still feel alive, if they feel like they can do what they want with their life. If that makes sense. Jay, are your exams quite over?? dammit, I miss the missing forumers!!
I totally interpreted it differently. I thought it was focused on the lost of innocence throughout ones course in life. Anyone else? Why would Johnny want him to stay gold as in to be alive? That doesnt seem to flow.
No, you interpreted it the same way as the rest of us. We just have a tendency to stray and start discussing other ideas. Sometimes related, sometimes not....
i thought thats what johnny meant too, was to stay young, and a have an interesting fact. In 1999, popular punk band 'New Found Glory' released an album titled 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'. The first song on the CD quoted 'The Outsiders' movie.
It begans:
Johnny: "It's like the mist is what's pretty, you know? All gold and silver."
Ponyboy: "Yeah, man."
Johnny: "Too bad it can't stay that way all the time."
Ponyboy: "Nothin' gold can stay."
And then the rest of the song plays after it.