Quality of life?

While some believe that knowing everything in life beforehand is the best way to live (and profess that life will be good if you know how to live it), I’d like to encourage you to subscribe to the school of thought that it’s fine, maybe better, to be uncertain. Convincing yourself that you know what you’re doing and are the Master of the Universe (your universe) may give you the strength to get out of bed each morning and answer yes to the question “Are you happy with what you’re doing today?”

On the other hand, saying “I don’t know… yet! But let’s find out” to the same question gets me through the day tension free without feeling any guilt in asking silly questions repeatedly.

Who’s to say which belief is correct? Both may be correct- after all, they seem to work. What worries me however is not which of the two is better, but what if both are wrong? Here’s why:

Now the people who follow the first train of thought may think that they’re strong (I don’t want to deny them the right to that) but it is this very false sense of strength that gets the weak ones through. And that is admirable as long as they don’t break down eventually.

Unfortunately, among those who go to the I Don’t Know school, are some of us who often get it wrong by thinking we’re being strong by taking the ‘path less trodden’, but all we do is say “I don’t know” and then do nothing else about it! I’m afraid we’ve found a guilt free way to console our conscience that it’s ok if we don’t know and then some strange force (I’m beginning to think fear) stops us from making the effort to go and find out. These people are the ones who are probably not “living”.

Who has been alive long enough to continuously have a huge impact on two entire generations of the world!

I used to think that Rock In Rio was Maiden's biggest concert.. In fact, I was led to believe that Maiden entered the Guinness Book Of World records for amassing such a huge gathering! Then, I saw Flight 666 the movie on Maiden's Somewhere Back In Time tour on their VERY OWN Boeing 757 (or was it 747?), that their lead vocalist Bruce Dickenson was piloting!.

The movie says that 30,00 people had gathered for the concert. Because that was the biggest field they had around! BUT, the show was cast live all across the country! Who has EVER got people to really stop everything they're doing, and just experience something so phenomenal?

In this tour, Maiden played songs that they had last played more than two decades ago. And in front of crowds that were of the SAME age group as the crowds that came almost 25 years ago!

They were playing for the first time for some Latin American crowds! And there were adults crying out their emotions and disbelief that their Gods have finally come down for them!

I almost had tears in my eyes when I realized how humbling this experience must be to them to experience what a channel they create for millions of people around the world to express their own different feelings. specially in places like Columbia and Chile (and I think they mentioned that in one of these places, such events were actually banned by the military!).

Seriously, who has been alive long enough to continuously have a huge impact on two entire generations of the world! And see what their music does to people?