One of the greatest satisfactions of living a reckless life is having no regrets.
At least not for things you wanted to do, could have done and didn’t. It’s never too late, really. Just go ahead and do it. Oh, now you’re thinking: “I should have done those things earlier on, when I was younger, had more energy and strength”. Right? Wrong. There is no age limit to start living a reckless life. It’s all about switching gear. Switch gear in how you envision time. “Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire”. I chose this quote of J. L. Borges as the opening statement for my book, Reckless, because it express my relationship with time.
That's how I feel every minute of my life. That’s how I felt when I was 20 as well. Maybe it’s because I’ve always tried to keep alive the feeling of being invincible that Karen Blixen depicts as what characterizes youth. Maybe is because, as Beatrice Woods suggested me on her 103rd birthday, the secret for longevity is “a healthy diet of young men and a bit of chocolate every day”. I don’t care if men are young or not in age, I care about their spirit. I am definitely attracted only to people—men or women—who have passion, the so-called fire within. That’s the real fountain of youth.
The other thing that keeps you young, in my experience, is… keep playing. Play with your kids. Play with your lovers. Play with your friends. Play with your dog. Play with yourself. Live life as a big fun game. And remember, it’s not so much about all the toys you can get. It’s more about the games you can invent to entertain yourself and others. Next on be-reckless.com, you will find games that you can play to become more reckless. Adventures to play that will make you more adventurous in real life. Inspiring characters that you can choose to experiment with, impersonating them on screen and later remembering the feeling in real life. I’m working on it. It will be here soon. How soon it’s just ….a matter of time.
Reading that is a memory exercise for the Sixty lingo and definitely brain storming about the usual big questions. I just wonder how the writer who never write real endings will manage to avoid ending a thriller!
Posted by: Proactol | July 19, 2011 at 12:14 AM
That is a very good question. Still unanswered, though. I wrote 90 % of the book and now, guess what? even if I know how it ends, I can't make myself putting it down in words. It seems limiting to give it one only ending. Thoughts?
Posted by: Gloria | September 04, 2011 at 02:56 PM