I am a waste of breath, of space, of time

[chaosisaferret]

So I'm looking at Columbia College. What an awesome summer program, I cream my panties just reading about it. But I look at the art and I wonder what the use of it is. You know, the entirity of the entertainment industry is useless. No one ever really thinks about it, but art is just a waste of time, no real use to it. But when you really

Comments

[iwilleatuonabun]

I don't know why you think your life is and will be so insignificant.

You seem like you're looking in these books to find some answers as to the purpose of it all and the best way to approach life in general, but I don't think you're going to find it there. Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac...these people lived a certain way and their opinions fit their lifestyles. You're probably nothing like any of them. The scary thing is that you have to make up most of the answers by yourself. :/

[albertjpeterson]

I'll have to second that one. You may think or want to think the way they seem to think through their books, but to actually DO what they did, to know what they knew...there's a universe of difference...another time, another world, another era...