White Collar Workers

[Joanne98]

Run time: 01:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWRuVtB-zhc   Posted on YouTube: November 28, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 29, 2008 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 1085

 

[Joanne98]

1. What? Nothing to say? Is the shame that bad?

[Joanne98]

2. NUMB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQWszrZHBPI

[Joanne98]

3. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U

[RandomThoughts]

5. Excellent summation, my take on it.

The idea that ones percieved direction, or what they are told is the way to go, is turned on its head with a change of perspective.

The concept, to awaken and see that all one strived for was for nought, for they missed the real journey of life, the love of friends and family, or the accomplishment of dreams, the challenge of tests, the taste of failure paving the way for the trek to success. Success as one chooses to define it for themselfs.

But this is darkside looking back, to question what one missed, is to forget what one experianced.

I quit my job bought a van and played pool up and down the coast, across the midwest. They called my crazy, maybe they were right. Meeting new people, traded for traditional friends.

And my recent years have been even odder, limited by finances, my reach is cyber, and that within walking distance. But the experiances continue.

And I got stories :)

P.S. Time watching TV, waiting, Ok alot of that is a total waste, and I avoid it as best I can.

[blackbart99]

7. excuse me but....

what the fuck are you talking about, random thoughts?

Man, I really hate what we have done as a species sometimes. :cry:
Poor bears!!!

[RandomThoughts]

8. Well I was talking about the flow of the thread.

White collar workers compared to bears in a cage preforming for scraps of food thrown to them.

Then the 2 pink flyod songs that discribe a condition

Comfortabaly numb (although actually drug refrence) also shows a sadness of soul (in thread context) maybe caused by selling out. In one interpretation.

Followed by
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun!!!

Which is when a person realized they never started life off. They missed the point, or never even got started off.

So I spoke on what I thought this meant. And gave my personal point when I decided to just take a vacation for awhile and play pool, leaving white collar world to have fun and chase a dream. It is a point where I was not numb, and was a race I ran for awhile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U
If you compare my post to the song I replied to, you can see where my story is similiar to the start of that song, accept I did not miss starting gun, in how I perceived that part of the race to run.

I hope this clears up any confusion on the meaning of my previous post
:)

There is a heck of alot more to the song. but I just kept it surface level with a personal story.

If you want to get deep, there is lots going on in that song. the last line itself.
"when I come home cold and tired, its good to warm my bones besides the fire, far away across the fields, tolling on the iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees, to hear the softly spoken magic spells.

But I didn't want to get to deep into things.
home, cold, tired, bones, fire, fields, tolling, iron bell, calls the faithful to their knees, magic spells. Alot could be said about the song in different context, but I was sticking to the context of the bear/white collar clip posted earlier in thread.

[drmeow]

4. That's just sad. n/t

[smiley]

6. I hate zoos

Bears shouldn't act that way

[Joanne98]

9. kick