If you ever wondered what life is all about, then the best picture that can be painted is when your spouse turns over to their side of the bed and mumbles “I just don’t feel like it…”

Life is only about feelings. That is all you will ever experience.

Isn’t it funny that life is all about the ‘F’ word. Without feelings, Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll would not be such key elements in our lives. The only reason your first fuck is such a memorable affair is the melting pot of feelings that went with it. Drugs just make you feel different and music is played soft and loud to generate the whole emotional spectrum that we are capable of feeling.

You may think that money makes the world go around. This is the fiction part. What do you do with your money? You use it to purchase feelings. You do not really need that 3^rd ‘Colnago C59 with Campagnolo super record and zipp wheels – but it would sure feel nice to have one. Money is but a tool. Any feeling that it gives you is in what money can buy. A lot of money in your bank account may make you feel cocky – but it is only when you give it away to exchange it for feeling that it becomes really useful.

And if you think that the world should be a happier place, then that is fiction too. You will be a lop-sided human being if you felt happy all the time. Even though you like a movie to have a happy ending, you would be real bored with it if there were no suspense, pain, sorrow and drama in the preceding 110 minutes. Just like a good movie, the world needs the constant drama that the news reporters thrive on. And isn’t it funny that we get hooked by the gory news details and are less obsessed by the good stuff. Bad news seem to sell better.

Some of us will never know real poverty – because we have do not have the experience of starvation. A bad bike crash may elude some of us – but does that make the crash-free more fortunate?

Personally, I have crashed my bike, snapped some bones, torn a lot of skin, taken ambulance trips to Concord Hospital… and the feelings I got out of those experiences can never be duplicated any other way.

We will never experience the full spectrum feelings available, simply because there are so many. But there are many there for the taking if we can learn that the only reason that “things” happen to us is because that is the only way that we will ever be able to experience those feelings.

So just bring it on…