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You Want To Be Influenced By The World Because It Has So Many Cool Things About It, But It Also Has A Bunch Of Bad Things About It.

To Try To Please People Is An Endless Chasing Of One's Own Tail. That's Not Very Satisfying, So We Do What We Like And That Satisfies Us. When It Does Work Out, Its A Bonus, Really.

Eating Good Things And Being Around People Who Are Happy - You Want To Be Influenced By The World Because It Has So Many Cool Things About It, But It Also Has A Bunch Of Bad Things About It. Being Around People Who Are Happy And People Who Are Creative, That's What You Do If You're Lucky In Your Life.

You Can't Really Get The Full Joy Out Of Life Unless You Really Go For It. You Just Have To Go Into It And Stay Under Some Kind Of Hope Or Illusion That It's Going To Work. But As You Get Older, Or The More Experiences You Have, Or Whatever It Is That Tells You How This Stuff Works, You Also Know That If You Go All The Way Into It, There's The Risk Of Losing Everything But You Don't Have A Choice.

The 'cool' Record Store. It Is Where You Can Talk To People Who Are Like You. They Look Like You, Think Like You And, Most Tellingly Like The Same Music As You - The Only Comparable Experience These Days Would Probably Be An Art Museum - An Actual Place Where You Can Stand And Simply Be Surrounded By Your Heroes.