Life Is Not A Journey

Look existence
The physical universe
Is basically playful
There is no necessity for it whatsoever
It isn't going anywhere

Music differs from say travel
When you travel
You are trying to get somewhere

One doesn't make the end of the composition
Same when dancing
You don't aim at a particular spot in the room
That's where you should arrive
The whole point of the dancing is the dance

We've got a system
And what we do is we put the child into the corridor and
Now you go to kindergarten
When you finish that, you get into first grade and then
Come on, first grade leads to second grade and so on and
Then you get out of grade school and you go to high school and
Then you're gonna go to college and
When you're through with graduate school, you'll
Go out to join the world

Then when you wake up one day about 40 years old and
You don't feel very different from what you always felt

Look at the people who lives to retire
Put those savings away
And then when they're 65
They don't have any energy left
They're more or less impotent

We thought of life by analogy with a journey
With a pilgrimage which had a serious purpose
At the end and the thing was to get to that end
Success or whatever it is
Or maybe heaven
I'll be dead

But we missed the point the whole way along
It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or dance
While the music was being played
But you had to do that thing
You didn't let it happened