Walk like a Man by Robert J. Wiersema

Author:Robert J. Wiersema
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MUS050000
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 2011-08-10T04:00:00+00:00

1. There should to be an English word for this feeling, but I haven’t been able to find it. The Japanese call it mono no aware, “the pathos of things.” Which, now that I think about it, would make a great tattoo.

2. I’m not actually that polite. I just figure, why add to their pain?

3. That same high school now features a poster of me on their Wall of Fame. It was the first such poster, actually. I’m still working through the levels of irony and mental discord that fact creates in me. I should probably talk to someone. Perhaps on a couch.

4. If I could give my sixteen-year-old self some advice, it would be this: make your move. Because that friendship you’re trying so hard not to endanger? It doesn’t turn out the way you think it will.

5. No, not at the same time.

6. The kiss probably wouldn’t have happened were it not for a friend of my dad’s named Larry. Upon seeing me mooning about the day after the show, he asked what was going on. When I told him the situation, how confused I was, how I didn’t know if she even liked me, he shook his head. “Just kiss her,” he said. “That’s the only way you’ll know for sure.”

7. Given the temperatures the water reaches in summer (stagnant and cut off from the glacial chill of the lake) and the number of people in it, calling it “the spit” is more polite—though probably less accurate—than calling it “the lukewarm piss.”

8. Usually by me.

9. It’s hard to tell whether it’s just the rose-colored lenses of retrospect, or whether it really is the universe messing with your head, but have you ever noticed that the last time you make love with someone tends to be the best, the most fulfilling? I usually come down on the “universe messing with you” side of the argument: “Are you sure about this path? Are you really, really sure?” Mono no aware.

10. Green Point has a lot of memories for me. Family picnics. The day I almost drowned trying to impress that girl I mentioned previously. Nightswimming with a girl I was in love with, but would never tell.

11. Peter, who has become a physicist, would likely argue that there’s never anything more than angles and physics.

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