What should I learn from this? I asked myself. Hendrix had everything the world craves and at such a young age: wealth, fame, and amazing talent. But he was dissatisfied. This idol for our generation became a victim of his own excesses. Thousands were proclaiming “sex, drugs, and rock and roll” as the progressive way to live. Freedom was their highest value, but were they really free? I thought of all the wonderful people I’d met who were part of the counterculture, but also of those who seemed merely wild and ungrateful. I thought of how gratitude had been the most important value my mother
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