A celebration of imminent triumph over all, for us all. For Sally

We are young! Right now, we are the envy of all those with drivers permits and wrinkles alike. We are shiny and bright, ready to take the world as our own. For this moment, the past is nothing more than what’s led us here, the future something we know is waiting for us with welcoming arms. In fact, let us not spend time on music at all unless it serves as inspiration of sorts for the revolution, which we will start. Let’s not waste time with buzz bands who are reviving the 80s and wear well-coordinated outfits. In a week, there will be another them. But in 100, even 1 million years, there will not be another US! WE ARE NOW! We can be loud and vapid and pretty and selfish. But, now is not forever so we must be angry but calm and forceful, strong and intelligent, faceless, with the lives of millions on our minds. Let’s not shop at the mall, but only in a rage against materialism and capitalism and monstrous displays of what we can afford to buy, separating us from those less fortunate. Let’s not treat people like things, to be traded and replaced to match our other accessories, no matter how much they beg for it in their actions and thoughts. Let’s give away all we own, for none of it is ours. We have our youth and its power, and those are the world—hidden, but there. Let’s never assume that we are anything more than animals with the coincidence of vocal chords and opposable thumbs and let’s never use these things to assert superiority over any other living things. Let’s keep nothing and share everything. Let’s take no credit nor blame for anything. It’s everyone’s. Let’s create beauty through change and change through beauty. Let’s view the world as never enough and everything—there is both the drive for progress and the means by which to achieve it. We have been chosen to change the world because we were born. So let’s never live in a shoebox on a street, the world is our home. Let’s never have money to count, we have nothing and everything. Let’s never allow personal contentment to lead to complacency and inactivity. Let’s live for wind and waves, not paper or plastic. Let’s never settle down and kick up our feet, but remain in motion even if our feet hurt. Let’s not die the quiet death of millions, but live the never-ending life of few. IF we do these things, we will have this life, youth, forever. Now will become tomorrow for us, never yesterday. Beauty, life, death, tomorrow, yesterday, now, will not distract us but inspire us and transform into one. at our hands and never fade because we are young! In bloom, rise above the water in the morning, crawling above onto land. Let's never wilt, or sink, or retreat. WE ARE YOUNG!