The year was 1969
… I was just out of High School working Full-Time as Day Shift Chef in a Steak House for a sweet old guy that was very good to me as an adopted son …
My ride at that time was a Suzuki 118 that I was constantly wrenching-on but it was a beautiful piece of machinery and I absolutely could NOT kill it as long as I kept 2 Cycle Oil in the tank and checked the Crankcase now and then … at 35 cents a gallon I could see and ride for miles and miles all over the East Coast for mere penny’s and I sometimes rode with friends, so we had a loose Brotherhood but of course the Sporties were always in the lead …
That year
EASY RIDER came out https://infogalactic.com/info/Easy_rider (Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicklesonhttps://infogalactic.com/info/Jack_Nicholson) and so many did not understand that Peter was the son of Henry Fonda; Dennis was the son of William Hopper (Paul Drake in Perry Mason); yet such was definitely a significant ‘Turning Point’ in American culture … but I caught something therein which changed my life forever and has become a Standard that I still live by; Basically from Jimi Hendrix: https://infogalactic.com/info/Jimi_Hendrix
A Cover of:
“If 6 was 9” is attached hereto; it is NOT the original from the Easy Rider Soundtrack as that has been ‘pulled’ from YouTube but it is ‘very close’ and I do have the original in the Shop on Vinyl, burnt to Cassette years ago, and when I get this old Puter / Mini-Beast back up to speed I’ll cut that album to CD / MP3 …
But the Gist, the Life-Long lesson that I got from this is:
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die … so let me live my life the way I want to …”
Now, in my maturity I have learned and well know how to silence dissent and Controllers by turning this construct around on ANY Adversary and I merely tell them:
When you can die for me then you can tell me how to live my life !!!
Needlessly to say: I don’t have very many Adversaries or people trying to control me, and when I do they don’t hang around for very long … and that’s the way I like it;~)))
Thank you for sharing, I see the value in that perspective and it really can not be debated.
Ohhhh SH*T … I can NOT believe that Laura actually posted this as it was meant as a Personal note between me and my Dear Ones and Favorite Few; Laura, Henry and JD being firmly in that Group …
But I don’t object, actually I am pleased to share the concept with ALL my Trenchers …
And you, JD … WAKE UP, smell the friggin’ Coffee and Get Over this personal DISHONOR my Brother …
We Love you, we miss you and we patiently await your return to the battle as you apparently have ‘no concept’ of how much your contributions have been to our Hearts; and to me personally !!!
Pick up your friggin WEAPON Little Girl and get your ass back in the Trenches … you made a PLEDGE FOR LIFE: “Semper Fi” — and I will personally look you in the Eye on Judgment Day and call you to task my Brother Grunt !!!