“Il faut cultiver notre jardin.” - Voltaire
It’s the famous last line of Candide, “we must tend our garden.” I liked it not only because of the message, but also because two of the things I was most known for in high school were French and gardening.
“Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”
–Springsteen
I regret that I didn’t go with my first choice, because it captured my feelings about HS a lot better:
“For the ones who had a notion, yeah a notion deep inside
That it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive
I wanna find one face that ain’t looking through me
I wanna find one place
I wanna spit in the face of these Badlands.”
–Springsteen
But I was a good girl and played it safe.