Humanities & Classics 3270
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I didn't do much talking when I presented the song Pig for the sake of personal inerpretation everyone has in music. I find the Dave Mathews Band to be a brilliant band with enormous talent and success. Each member is a true master of their instrument, some playing more than one. I've always taken a liking to them but their most recent disc, Before These Crowded Streets, is a disk that I completely connect with. I can truely say I grok it in every sense. So, I wanted to let you all know the importance Pig has to me. I'll talk some more about the book The Tao of Pooh, and from this you;ll see how the Bisy Backson is relevent to this discussion.
Dave opens with the lines "Isn't it strange how we move our lives for another day, like skipping a beat. What if a great wave should come and wash us all away? he then goes on to say that we spend our days doing nothing to make this world a better place yet we complain and "pray for more from above". Just like Harris says that we are waiting for a messaih to save us. We trouble over things that are beyond our control and waste the days we have to make this world a better place. The best way to make it better is to open our hearts and our eyes to realize what we are living in now is a glorious gift. Its so true, how we hustle and bustle, fret and despair, always moving too fast to appreciate what's around us, which is magical and beautiful. This is where the Bisy Backson comes into play.
The majority of the world can be placed into the Bisy BAckson category. The Bisy Backson reflect the "Busy, Back Soon" mentality of most people. The Backson is always having to go somewhere, anywhere but where he is. Its as if we Bisy Backsons are constantly striving for the next level, the next step to something that we think will resultin more satisfaction and success. "For a reward perhaps. Our Bisy Backson religions, sciences, and business ehtics have tried their hardest to convince us that there is a Great Reward waiting for us somewhere, and that what we have to do is spend our lives working like lunatics to cach up. Wheter its up in the sky, behind the next molecule, or in the executive suite, its somehow always farther along than we are - just down the road, on the other side of the world, past the moon, beyond the stars..." By constantly striving for something better we are taking away from the goodness and happiness leaving the treasures we have been granted in the dust. We are '"greedy little pigs" as Dave would say. It seems that we tend to gain pleasure in terms of fighting, overcoming which rates our progress. Real progress is the personal growth and inner change that a person goes through. The BAcksons have the urge to change all present life forms and it becomes a power strugle with t
the natural order of things. "The main problem with this great obsession of saving time is very simple; you can't save time, you can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all because he's too busy trying to save it. And by trying to save every bit of it, he ends up wasting the whole thing." thats the utter truth. Like Dave says, we are greedy little pigs. We need to love the life we live, to concentrate on making it a better place by enjoying and making the most out fot eh time we are given.
"Why concern what we cannot see...Wash out this tired notion that the best is yet to come. But while you're on the ground don't think of while you're gone tomorrow."
Thanks to Tom for his great influence on a great group of people. All insight was truely appreciated!
laurel
P.S. Make sure to check out the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. IT speaks the truth that lies between us all.