De Novo
April 16, 2008
They always say hindsight is 20/20. I couldn’t agree more, but I think the more revealing quote is the one at the beginning of the movie Platoon: ‘Youth– is wasted on the young’. Ahh, if only we’d known. If only I had known. How many people have said ”If only I had known”? Everyone who has ever lived? Why are we so afraid, yet so invincibly ignorant when we’re young? What a sad and ironic paradox. Of course, like everyone, I always felt that I was special. And certainly, being a Virgo born of a Virgo, only added to that surmisation.
Should’ve known long ago that I was meant to be a loner. I mean, come on. Everyone else knew. Or at least strongly suspected. But, being the maverick that I am, I had to test not just the waters, but the limits of the waters. I… had to attempt to bend fate to my whims. Or so I thought. Who hasn’t thought that? Everyone who has ever lived?
