REALity
Read carefully; Life after college will never be the same. So enjoy it while it last, or go back to school when you have the chance before you get sucked into the world of responsibilities and obligations.
Before you had college parties, random nights of unexpected events. You didn't have to worry about health care, bills, too much about the future. The future became the next weekend. Worrying about where to go, what to wear, and most importantly who you'll meet. You could afford to be silly and stay up late because you were a "college student". Now you are an adult late nights happen only if you have a reason and a good one at that. We develop anxieties about our positions and roles in society as we are no longer college kids. Some of us struggle to adapt to the "real world", some of us easily transition into the horrible 9-5 work week that becomes 9-ruin your life.
I'm one of those who is struggling to transition into this cookie cutter life that has been laid out for us to adapt to. I could sit here and blame the economy for me not being able to find a real job yet, and i will. But I should be clear that my struggle is just as metaphysical as it is physical.
I wish it were okay to publicly speak about not wanting these responsibilities that come with adulthood, like bills and cars and big houses. I dont not want these things NOT because Im lazy and i dont want to work, but because they have no value to me in life. I think there are bigger problems we should be working 9-5 for other than finding a house, getting a car and paying bills for meaningless things, like the problems our previous and current leaders have and are creating in our world.
I think people should stop and think about how the world is living and has been for hundreds of years and see when that there was a time where many of todays problems were non-existent. And then go back to that time and see what we were or were not doing and realize that we are all living in such a destructive system.
Unfortunately i was sucked into this disgusting system in what we call the land of opportunity. You have friendly, generous creditors giving you the "opportunity" to spend only a few short months before you completely understood how horrible this system works before you are even legal to drink in the US. So me, like many other poor college students took this "opportunity" and well the rest is history.
Back to work..
Before you had college parties, random nights of unexpected events. You didn't have to worry about health care, bills, too much about the future. The future became the next weekend. Worrying about where to go, what to wear, and most importantly who you'll meet. You could afford to be silly and stay up late because you were a "college student". Now you are an adult late nights happen only if you have a reason and a good one at that. We develop anxieties about our positions and roles in society as we are no longer college kids. Some of us struggle to adapt to the "real world", some of us easily transition into the horrible 9-5 work week that becomes 9-ruin your life.
I'm one of those who is struggling to transition into this cookie cutter life that has been laid out for us to adapt to. I could sit here and blame the economy for me not being able to find a real job yet, and i will. But I should be clear that my struggle is just as metaphysical as it is physical.
I wish it were okay to publicly speak about not wanting these responsibilities that come with adulthood, like bills and cars and big houses. I dont not want these things NOT because Im lazy and i dont want to work, but because they have no value to me in life. I think there are bigger problems we should be working 9-5 for other than finding a house, getting a car and paying bills for meaningless things, like the problems our previous and current leaders have and are creating in our world.
I think people should stop and think about how the world is living and has been for hundreds of years and see when that there was a time where many of todays problems were non-existent. And then go back to that time and see what we were or were not doing and realize that we are all living in such a destructive system.
Unfortunately i was sucked into this disgusting system in what we call the land of opportunity. You have friendly, generous creditors giving you the "opportunity" to spend only a few short months before you completely understood how horrible this system works before you are even legal to drink in the US. So me, like many other poor college students took this "opportunity" and well the rest is history.
Back to work..
posted by iwrite2live at 12:36 PM
1 Comments:
I believe in your interpretation of the Land of opporunity as being falsely portrayed. Now let's work on changing the perception of America as a whole.
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