Love You To

Hello Humans! Another one of my most favorite songs of all time is "Love You To," by the Beatles. It's Track 4 on the Revolver (my favorite album of all time, no questions asked), just in case you were wondering.

"Each day just goes so fast, I turn around it's passed. You don't get time to hang a sign on me. Love me while you can, before I'm a dead old man. A lifetime is so short, a new one can't be bought. But what you've got means such a lot to me. Make Love all day long, Make Love singing songs. There's people standing round who'll screw you in the ground. They'll fill you in with all the sins you've seen. I'll make love to you, if you want me to."

There's a couple of lines in this beautiful song, written by the amazing George Harrison. The first is "A lifetime is so short, a new one can't be bought," and another being, "love me while you can, before I'm a dead old man." People say all the time that time flies by, and, one of my favorite form parents, "It's like I blinked and then they were in college!" It's so true though. I will soon be coming up on mid-term here in my first semester here at BYU-H, and it seems like just yesterday I was hopping on a plane to come over to the Island. So the question I propose today is, what are you going to do with your short life-time here on the planet we call Earth? Are you going to go around mad and angry, criticizing yourself and others, or are you going to be nice and kind to everyone you meet, and enjoying life? I personally choose the latter. I love smiling at people when I pass them by on the street, telling people compliments that make them feel better, and doing small acts of service for people. I talked about this a little bit in an earlier post, but I haven't been doing a great job of it. But you should also tell people how you feel about them. I mean, what's the whole weird stigma between humans and telling others how they feel? I mean, you should just be able to say, 'Hey you, I like you," or "Hey you, you're beautiful," but for some reason, there's this weird stigma behind it. That's something I hope to improve during my time here on the Island. I've already not done a fantastic job about it, but I've been doing better than before.

One of my other favorite lines, "You don't get time to hang a sign on me," points out one of my favorite parts about life. You get to make it what you want. You get to change it and have fun with it. I've recently been talking to one of my friends (at least, I think he can be considered my friend now. Or is he still just an acquaintance? I don't know! See, relationships and stigmas around people are confusing. Can't we all just be friends?!) and he's just been working and working and working and working. Which is not a bad thing, but he always seems so stressed whenever I talk to him. I keep telling him to do something fun just for him, (maybe take a girl out on a date or something, hint hint, wink wink) but then he never really seems to. I personally, would rather have lots of regrets in my life and have cool or silly stories to tell, than lots of "I wish I would have done that," but within the bounds of the gospel. Isn't that what life is about? Having a great time, making some mistakes, but learning from them along the way? We weren't put here on this planet we call Earth to just work until we die. So go, my fellow humans and make the most of your life. Stay wild, flower child.