"To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations."

If anyone knew how to tell it straight it was Emily Dickinson. She knew how it all worked, she was superior in the knowledge of how everything is and wasn't afraid to write it aloud. She's a total inspiration and I wish that I could figure things out as easily as she did. I learn much from reading her poems but if she was only still around there's no telling what I could see. Living is far from simplistic and yet we are expected to add more and more things to our lives that it all just weighs it down and causes unhappiness in life. If only we could live with nothing else attached-- now that would be the life.