Being up to your knees in crap literally is preferable to being up to your knees in crap metaphorically, let alone legally. Have we Americans let this “pursuit of happiness” thing get out of hand? One thing about being up to your knees in crap, it’s not mentally taxing. READ MORE The Cowboy Sheriff of Las Vegas Leaning on the shovel in the pen outside the chicken coop, I was wondering. Wholesome outdoor living, fresh eggs, etc. Declaration of Independence, second paragraph, first sentence - we’re “endowed… with certain unalienable Rights… among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” And we are, to my knowledge, the only nation that has hounding down joy written into our foundational documents. I purchased the farm 25 years ago, in pursuit of happiness. (“The chicken coop stinks!”) But I’m the one who does the farming. The missus and the kids pay intermittent lip service to living on a farm. This is a big diesel farm tractor with a bucket large enough to fill with hard cider (after it’s been hosed out) and let a hundred farm hands pursue happiness by the Mason jarful until they pass out.Īlas I have just one farm hand, me. And this is not one of those toy lawn tractors. They poop an entire heaping, steaming tractor bucket’s worth. I know you’re not wondering how much six chickens poop over the course of ten months. We indulge in excess in our own pursuit of happiness only because it is the beginning of happiness and we think it will lead us to the ultimate.We have only six chickens. that the pursuit of happiness is somewhere else, rather than at the end of the path to unlimited money, unlimited women (or men, depending), and unlimited partying, excessively. leading to the only inevitable conclusion. Only way to understand this song, is to imagine yourself as a person with everything and invited to every high profile party known, and still not getting much out of it. The last little scene in the bathroom of Kid Cudi seeing himself and then crashing through the mirror, or the reflection of what he seems himself as, is almost alchemical in it's message. It's a beautiful song by someone considered to be "on-top" of the world, but still searching for a deeper meaning of life. Between money, drugs, and an endless pursuit of "good times," or what we perceive to be happiness (a party), all these things still leave people feeling empty or in search of happiness. It rolls with a lot of cliches but it's talking about more than what's right in front of the person and what they are chasing. It's a song of those that are lost looking for their own happiness, between the video and the lyrics (especially the ones at the end of the song). You can feel it (feelin' it, feeling like two A.M.), you think you know it (driving drunk, doin' my thing), but you are still not sure what it is. Song MeaningThe song is about a pursuit of happiness (duh, right?) But more specifically about looking for it but not knowing what you're looking for. Why did I drink so much and smoke so much? Ugh
I know everything that shine ain't always gold
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Rather lay awake in the bed full of sorrow You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow Tell me what you know about night terrors, nothin' Tell me what you know about dreams, dreams Tell me what you know about them night terrors every nightįive AM cold sweats, waking up to the sky You don't really know about nothin', nothin' Tell me what you know about dreamin', dreamin' I'll be fine once I get it, yeah, I'll be good I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I knowĮverything that shine ain't always gonna be gold, hey