How do you sum up something which has helped to open your mind?

"So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?” Pink Floyd said it best in their song titled, “Wish you were here.” It’s not that you can’t tell Heaven from hell or blue skies from pain, but life itself is deceiving in the facts that anything bad can happen at the most wonderful moments in time as to anything amazing can happen at the worst of times since life has no direction. With the idea of that comes the understanding, “Life is what you make it” and there is no other way of looking at life then through that single saying. Things happens everyday in life which allow good or bad to come into our lives day after day, hour after hour but life isn’t as easy as it sometimes makes itself out to be and with that is the understanding that life really is what you make of it and how you deal with it. For example, someone who loses a loved one can look at it from two different positions, one being self sorrow, not wanting anything from anyone and not allowing anyone into their lives which causes a disruption in a person’s regular life. This can be seen through drug addiction as well as other forms of a person’s downfall (depression, etc) but then again there is always the opposite. The person who uses all the bad in life to gain and to do well, where more and more bad is more of a push for this type of person to better themselves in life. Whereas an example of this would be someone who loses a loved one but uses the pain and sorrow for better to achieve greater goals and to do things which one might have thought was not possible at one point. The harsh reality in life is that anything is possible, anything is achievable and anything can be done. Where there’s a will, there’s a way and where there is a way there is something that can be achieved based on a persons mind set and life being lived. The same is said for artists anyone who is on this earth for that matter. Some of the best artists of all time showed there true colours during the hardest times of their lives, these are the artists well known to us today whether it be through any medium such as photography, music, film etc.

With that being said, let’s have a cigar, sit back and enjoy what life has coming for us because life is something we have to do and if anyone was to do the impossible, it was a group which people did not want to see achieve anything.

They did not do the impossible, they achieved the impossible.

Which is exactly what everyone needs to start doing.

"Come in here, Dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far,
You're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it, if you try;
They're gonna love you.
Well I've always had a deep respect,
And I mean that most sincere.
The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?"

- Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar

Paolo Macchiusi