i ain't really tryin to get too heavy on u all with the following. and if i were trying to get all heavy, i personally don't think that quoting somebody else's words would necessarily be the best way to do so.
i don't think that the following is really a conscious reaction to any one specific event that i've experienced recently; and i certainly hope it isn't in any way prescient!

but the other night i thought of the following jimi hendrix lyrics which i first heard about a dozen years ago, and which somehow resonate with me at present as i think about a big decision or 2 that i may make over the next year or so:

"Cos I've got my own world to live through and, uh-huh,
And I ain't gonna copy you!
...
I've got my own life to live,
I'm the one that's gonna die when it's time for me to die;
So let me live my life the way I want to."

these are from the song 'if 6 was 9' (which as a title is in itself kind of interesting) off the hendrix album 'axis: bold as love'

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