“Maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realise up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't know even half the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realise that what you liiked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning- and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better to not know the lyrics to your life.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
Thought for the day!
Have you ever sung a song for years and then actually read the lyrics and realised that you have been singing the totally wrong words? Once you know the correct words it changes the whole relationship you have with that song. Maybe, like some relationships which you thought were going to be something special but looking back you just read more into it than existed in the first place?
However, life wouldn't be so much fun if we knew all the correct lyrics to life now would it? ;-))
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