Culture is........

Opportunity to gain a variety of experience is what life is about. Sometimes I analyze myself and my life as well as others and realize that we are not always as cultured as we can or should be. Me myself, I consider myself to be a Renaissance man, well versed in the various splendors of life, but I too have yet to experience aspects of life that others my age have. So times like this when I am privileged with the opportunity to further contemplate my lot in life, I am honored to be able to make an objective evaluation of self. Having done so I like to challenge myself to do things out of the ordinary if you will, shake things up a bit.... you know, experience life to it's fullest, on all four angles of the square. What sparked this thought and consequentially this post was something that happened to me earlier today. I was at the bank making a sizable deposit and there was jazz music playing on the speakers. There wasn't any words to the music just a saxophone covering of a tune that I recognized. And there were two female bank managers talking to me and I asked them if they knew what song was playing. They were both in their mid to late 30's (by the way I'm 24) and both seemed to be stumped. I simply smiled and and said "Prince...Yal to young to know about that"... I started to sing a bit of the chorus but decided that would be overkill plus I was in too much of a hurry to entertain. But it made me realized how much wisdom is to be gained in life. I make it a point to explore anything that interest me, besides that is in fact the science of everything in life. Because I recognize that being a young Blackman that with intense hiphop demeanor I wouldn't be expected to know the Prince track. But I'm a cultured male. I dive into classics; classic literature; classic music; art, what have you. I'm into it all. But there is still so much to know, so much to experience and so much to enjoy. I don't yet know what it's like to have a sexcapade, sipping Sangria on the beach in Spain, I have yet to see what its like to buy ten bails of equality in Mexico speaking their language, but I have Rosetta Stone. So what I am saying is I'm learning. And growing. And I will encourage anyone else to do the same. Live life how you want to live it, explore every angle of the square. That is what matters...experience. There is no reason to be limited in your experience. Why restrict yourself. the way I live my life is Free. You should do the same. Now I'm on my way to see a play by the late, great August Wilson called Jitney. Peace


P.S. here is that Prince song... I'm sure alot of yall too young to know about that