<\/p>\n
“Oh you can be anybody you want to be, you can love whomever you will,
\nyou can travel any country where your heart roams, and know that I
\nwill love you still. You can live by yourself, you can gather friends
\naround, you can choose one special one. And the only measure of your
\nwords and your deeds will be the love you leave behind when you’re
\ndone”<\/p>\n
“If perchance I were sent to a distant hollow
\n Sweetest Love I ask,
\n With me should you follow?<\/p>\n
Would you close your eyes
\n And hold your breath,
\n Take a step into Tomorrow?<\/p>\n
Would you grasp my hand
\n And still my heart
\n Purge me of my Sorrow”<\/p>\n
-The Hopeful Appeal, Minyoung Sohn <\/p>\n
“Love, Devotion, Feeling, Emotion<\/p>\n
Don’t be afraid to be weak
\n Don’t feel proud to be strong
\n Just look into your heart, my friend
\n That will be the return to yourself,
\n The return to innocence<\/p>\n
The return to innocence<\/p>\n
If you want then start to laugh
\n if you must then start to cry
\n Yourself don’t hate
\n Just believe in destiny
\n Don’t care what people say
\n Just follow your own way
\n Don’t give up and use the chance
\n To return to innocence.<\/p>\n
That’s not the beginning of the end
\n That’s the return to yourself
\n The return to innocence”<\/p>\n
— The Return to Innocence<\/p>\n
I remember listening to this on a bus with my head pressed against the
\nwindow, looking out, on the way to cedar point at the end of my senior
\nyear of high school. I was feeling, as andrew tobias might have put
\nit, “Cosmic”. Lost, knowing that the familiar was falling away,
\nknowing that I’d already changed, and was going to change even more
\nsoon. Fearful and hopeful. But mostly lost. And alone. <\/p>\n