Monday, March 19, 2012

"What's your idea of happiness?

Freedom. Not feeling tied down or pushed one way or another. Just
feeling like you can be who you are and let that be all right.


What's difficult?


Conceiving of what your life should be and its relationship to what
your life is. That idea of what your life should be comes from a lot of outside expectations, in addition to your own. What your life is…is what it is right then, and that's okay. But the constant comparison in the
back of people's minds leads to a lot of heartache and disappointment.
Like Springsteen says, “Throw away the dreams that break your heart.”




What's your greatest fear?

Dying. I don't want to die. I’ve always felt that way. I truly love every
moment of every day. I think that's why I get up so early. I love the
morning and having this fresh canvas in front of you, and not knowing
what's going to happen and getting through that day and staying up as
late as you can until you just fall over on your face and get up as
early as you can, and start again. I do really love being alive. It
makes me think that I should probably stop taking these trips.


They're getting a little risky. It's a risk that comes with living fully. I
don't want to live in a cubicle or a sheetrock white apartment. In my
heart, I would die in that situation. I've worked those jobs before
and I felt myself dying, completely curling up. And thank God in this
time and place and community that we live in, you don't have to do that."


Porter Fox, founder of nowheremag.

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