“This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Y’know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something…a dentist, a pilot, a cop, a janitor, a preacher, all that. Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do…all the things that I don’t wanna be…all the places I don’t wanna go…I don’t understand how people are supposed to get through life with that hanging over them.”
~Henry, a self-proclaimed recluse and minimalist
from the 1987 movie, Barfly
On a small and insignificant plot of land adjacent to the Platte River in Plattesmouth Nebraska, a man known simply as Pee Wee lived out his life quietly, honestly and contentedly in a worn-down shack. Although I never knew the man personally, I get the feeling from talking to people who did that Pee Wee was someone who cared little about human accomplishment–and even less for the material trappings that accompanied them. However, it is evident that he cared much about others and was devoted to being at peace with life’s circumstances.
Somehow, I think the world might be a better a place if there were a few more people like him.
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