Braving The Storm vs Staying On The Shore 

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?  Hunter S. Thompson 

Some want a peaceful existence where they risk nothing and gain nothing 

A life without adverse consequences a life of peaceful refinement 

I say you can fuck off with that nonsense 

A peaceful life with nothing risked is a worthless life to me 

If nothing ever happens than what good is this life of so-called peaceful contentedness 

You can’t be content without having been uncontented 

You can’t truly appreciate peace 

Without strife 

Love without hate 

You must experience both extremes to know the true glory of either 

Give me a tumultuous life full of experience of ups and downs  

Throw me out into the seas of life 

So that i may experience it and live 

Not as some background character stuck behind the curtain 

But living life Boldy center stage 

Rocked to and fro by the tempest and the waves 

As the violin and the piano play on and on 

Let me skid into the afterlife like a broadside from a ship smoking  

Thoroughly used up and worn-out yelling that was one hell of a ride  

As the piano plays my funeral dirge 

Don’t let me go into the grave perfectly preserved utterly devoid of having truly lived