Mumbling Madly

Parked outside of Kris’ apartment was a car with the following enscribed on the window:
“Dance as if no one is watching you, Love as if you’ve never been hurt before, Sing as though no one can hear you, Live as if heaven is on earth.”
First of all, I’m impressed that someone would have the desire to put this entire paragraph on their window. (And you all know how I feel about bumper stickers). Don’t people typically put large brand names on their back window? Like OAKLEY or something equally stupid. Or my favorite are the kids who paste their name in Old English on the back: “Jose” or “Josalito” or even better yet “Blessed Mother” accompanied by Lady Guatalupe. Maybe that’s just a Ft. Collins thing….
Second of all, I would have really dug this quote when I was an angst ridden, poetic, teenager. I wrote this kind of stuff on my walls and really BELIEVED in it, man, I mean…YEAH, “love as if you’ve never been hurt before.” That stuff spoke to me back than. Now it just seems painfully corny.
Kris was kind enough to take a picture right before the owner of the car returned. And than Kris said, “Hey, we took a picture of your car.” And we laughed.