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Jan 22, 2009 11:44

I haven’t been on this enough. Whatever enough is.... I don’t know if that’s a result of content-ness with my situation in life, or I’ve just kind of slipped into a lower standard of living. I really it’s the 1st, because scarily enough, i think I would be numb to it if it was in actuality the latter ( Read more... )

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snowflake_fox January 31 2009, 08:08:45 UTC
Dude, everybody goes through that when they're about to finish school. It's like, when you're in school, that's all you really have to do, right, just go to school, and that's your identity. you are a student. you learn things, absorb information, take things in, spew them out onto paper, get some essentially meaningless numerical representation of how much, or how well you spewed said information, which school calls your "grade" and you can wallow in pity or glow with self-satisfaction and think ahhhh i did my school work, therefore my life is complete, i feel accomplished, time to go get drunk.

and then you're like... oh shit. what the fuck am i going to do when school is done? you have to re-invent yourself with a new identity. Hence my going to be a reporter. That's tangible. You can tell people "I'm a ____" when they ask what you do. I pay taxes and am a contributing member of society.

oh. what am i talking about. it's all a bunch of capitalist bullshit.

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