Oh, I'm free forever!
Oh this freedom is going to nurture me.
My sticky notes from We Both Laughed in Pleasure by Lou Sullivan:
On graduating high school:
I ran outa there at 2:15, saying out loud as I stepped out, "Go fuck yourself Pius High School!" and ran out, my face lifted to the sky. Oh, I'm free forever! I threw the uniform in the middle of the living room and told ma to destroy it.
Advice from his dying father:
there’s only one thing he wants to say and that’s “[Lou,] do what you want to do and don’t give a fuck! Whatever anyone else says, just do what you want to do!” (And I just wanted to say, yeah dad, you should know, you waited too long to do what you wanted).
On his own death:
I have always envisioned myself laying on my deathbed and looking back to reassess what I did on earth. I will be the only who matters, and I don’t want to have to realize that I wasted my life or didn’t accomplish what I wanted to. I will be the only one laying there knowing if I blew it or not.