"You must first lose everything, in order to do anything"

[hobo_in_a_box]

I wrote this in response to something mary wrote and i felt like adding it here. Go read her lj for the whole story. maritopia

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[wiggajones]

the american dream....at its greatest, or at its worst.

but i have a feeling that other people from other countries do this, so lets call it the blair krenitsky experience, cuz i'm the coolest kid in the world.

So true

[germanus]

You got it man.
That's why my current plans for my future life is not to got to college after school and just hike arround for 10 or 10 years. Money and success are not important to me at all. I just want to have fun and life the best life I can imagine. And I mean what is the purpose of life. It's definately not to earn miney. And if you life you life in the way that money is not the most impotant thing for you and rather do whatever you want and give up some luxurities everybody can life their dream life. But some are just too oppsest of the general believes of society and can't manage it to get out of the cicle. And I think one of the main reason most people don't get out of it is becaus they care too much about other peoples oppinion, especially their parents oppinion. I don't care that much abou my family and I don't miss them at all and I think that is my first step to have a great life
Be independent and do whatever you want to and fuck the others who tell you what to do

Re: So true

[hobo_in_a_box]

Mar, you couldn't be more right. Where are you going to hike? I'm gonna join you for like a year, if your cool with it. You are such a good kid. Don't change.

smell the roses

[anonymous]

that's been my philosophy for a long time, that you can't be so caught up in life, and living for the sole sake of "self betterment" (ie. making lots of money and being "sucessfull") the true mark of a life well lived is not what one leaves behind in an inheritance or how many material possessions they aquired while living, but rather when they die, to be able to say that they are truely content with their life, that they don't wish they had done something they hadn't, or had taken time to stop and smell the roses. That is the most common gripe among people on their death beds, that they wish they hadn't been so caught up in the moment that they didn't take time to appreciate the smaller things in life. I refuse to have this as a gripe when I die.
-Conor-