So some of the things I have been saying lately worry my friends. So this will actually be my first serious post in a while. Ok how should I start this, the way my parents brought me up is as good a place as any. My parents are always arguing. Now you may think so what all parents do that but my parents argue about everything. That sounds bad. I think they enjoy arguing. They have raised me to be strong willed and free speaking. Every teenager argues with their parents from time to time but I was practically trained to be good at it. Its probably why my best friends are the people I disagree with most. When you are raised like that you have a very different personality. My heroes in life are anarchists like Emma Goldman, writers like Ernest Hemingway, politicians like Thomas Jefferson and FDR, civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, and the Yippies movement in the 60s and 70s. If you grow up like that then you grow up a fighter who wants to take on the world. Unfortunately I was born to a time where those issues have been mostly dealt with. I have been feeling like The Rebel Without A Cause lately and that's not a movie reference. I was going to be a doctor not too long ago or that was the plan. Then this whole train of thought hit me and all I could think is why would I ever want to be a doctor? Now I am thinking Law School. Lawyers get a bad rep for being dicks but that's not all lawyers. What about Environmental Lawyers, Union Lawyers, and Lawyers who work Pro Bono or do it for free. I guess I have just been a little lost in my own mind lately. The classic what am I doing with my life blues. Though I think I'm a little young to be getting it.
So I don't want to be one of those bright minds of a generation that run mad through the streets. If you don't know I'm talking about the poem Howl.
Sincerely,
The Guy Without A Compass.
Dude, just do what feels right. Become a Harvey's checkout clerk.
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