Let your hair down: 745

You never get what you want in this life, so why not
shake your hair loose on a boat at play in dawn light?

--From The Selected Poems of Li Po--

Children should be taught the importance of decorum; but adults, who've seen the way the world works; how can they take it so seriously? Some people obsess over it, in a way that is, dare I say, childish.

Talking to extraterrestrials: circa 740

Staying the night at Summit-Top Temple,
you can reach out and touch the stars.

I venture no more than a low whisper,
afraid I'll wake the people of heaven.

--From The Selected Poems of Li Po--

Perhaps the universe is filled with intelligent creatures, but clearly we cannot be numbered among them. To imagine a sky filled with sentient beings, all of them angels and none of them demons, how much hubris and stupidity does that take?

Instead of trying to contact them, it is better by far to let them sleep.