I woke up this morning thinking one should live life like a sonnet. Then I thought, to live life like a sonata would be even better, so much richer and symphonic, or something. But then I realized I didn’t know what a sonata actually was, how it was structured, how it sounded,  or anything. It might be too complicated. A sonnet is relatively simple & straightforward. Anyone can follow the structure of a sonnet. Okay, then. So, live life like a sonnet, it is. But then I started thinking how would you go about doing that? How would you live your life like a 14-line composition written in iambic pentameter, which, if you were following the Shakespearean model, would be organized in quatrains with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg? Maybe it’s just another one of those things that people say that sound good but really don’t amount to a whole lot of anything at all when you  stop to think about them. Live life like a sonnet? What does that actually mean? I had no idea. So I got up and started the coffee.