[personal profile] leia131
I went babysitting today. I decided that anyone who thinks there is no Heaven, anyone who thinks the world is a dark, cold, awful place, has never been swinging. There is no feeling equal to swinging so high you feel the point where you stop going up and then come back down. There is no need for pot, just go swinging. It feels like flying. When all you can see are the clouds and all you feel is the cold metal beneath your fingers and all you hear is the laughter of children, then you know what it means to be high on life. And you know that there is a Heaven, and it is just like this. And you know that the world is beautiful.

And you wonder about what physics makes your hat fall off, and then you laugh at yourself for thinking about physics when the wind is ruffling your hair and it flies in your face and you leap off the swing and run like the four year old children you are with down across a field even though you generally hate running.

And you wonder if Hitler would have turned out differently if he'd had a swingset as a child.

There is so much beauty in the world if you only look for it a little. Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

Date: 2004-11-11 06:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haveaday510.livejournal.com
Wow. Megan my Freshman... I love you. You have hit the nail

on

the

head.

Hear hear.

Date: 2004-11-12 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kelliann1388.livejournal.com
megan, i love you. you rock. must find the closest swingset asap.

Date: 2004-11-12 01:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] avalons-flute.livejournal.com
Meg my bird that was one of the most beautiful passages...no joke. The first thing it reminded me of was (of course) in Hair, when we're singing "Walking In Space" (that was the trip song in the second act with nudity at the beginning). The one line goes "how dare they try to end this beauty". Honestly that's all I thought of. How dare they try to end this beauty by attempting to put us in a war? How dare they try to smother children's laughter, and burn playgrounds, and wreck swingsets? And yes, Hitler definitely would have been a different person if he had had a swingset!

Yea!

Date: 2004-11-12 01:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leia131.livejournal.com
I love you all. Aren't I good at being deep?

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