D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman? (477 hits)
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Submitted by digsy (View user info) at 2004-04-12 09:04:35 EDT
D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?
In the younger years, we all want to be astronauts, sports stars, movie stars, hell even porn stars. We've got all these dreams; so different to everyone else. The great things we learn about in school seem nothing to what we think we can achieve. We leave school, get through with education and it hits us. The world isn't there to look after us while we work up to this big achievement or get that dream job. We have to fend for ourselves.
We get a job for 'the time being'. Just to see us over till we get a firm footing. In 6 months we will have enough to fulfil this dream. Soon enough, our dreams start to take 2nd priority. Now we want more money. We want a bigger house. We want a faster car. We want a more attractive partner. That dream of being a spaceman now seems very distant. Soon enough, we just want to earn enough money to cover the bills. The futility of the situation never hits us; a never ending circle. We earn money, we go home, we spend it, we earn money, we go home and we spend it.
The lucky ones find a partner through this rat race. We can go home and spend money together. We can go home and get in debt together. We can go home and rot together. The spacemen are now only seen on the news. It was a stupid dream anyway. Who would want to be a spaceman when we can work a 9-5 and just manage to survive? Oh the naivety of youth. It's funny now when we look back.
Soon the time comes when you're too old to earn money. You stay at home, find a hobby and spend the remaining time spending the money you worked for 40 years to accumulate. You watch your children do the same as you did 40 years prior. They realise that the world hasn't got time for spacemen. The innocence of youth is truly destroyed when we realise the futility of our dreams; when materialistic tendencies cloud the mind.
We all fade into anonymity sooner or later.
But hey, that's just my opinion. If you wanna be a spaceman, it's still not too late.
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Submitted by Anyway (user info) at 2005-01-16 23:57:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Captured the essence of the song. Oasis fanatic, Digsy? If so, I can tell. Big fuckin fan of them meself.
Submitted by T.chow (user info) at 2004-04-12 09:59:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
word.
i wanted to be a spaceman and even got into the airforce academy, but then someone told me that i could never do it because i'm too tall (i'm 6'3).
i always wanted to be the first man on mars, and name a continent after myself. that would have been pretty cool.
now i'm just going to have to settle for being a rockstar or a famous writer or something...
Submitted by digsy (user info) at 2004-04-12 09:36:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
"that kind of joke is befitting of such an advanced society as ourselves."
Hehe, when you start saying that, you know your head is up your arse.
Submitted by BonesForBucks (user info) at 2004-04-12 09:33:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Kind of sad, but true. Makes me wonder what astronauts actually get paid. Do they deal with the same money problems as the rest of us?
P.S. On a similar space topic, I and the rest of my lab was amused by your "water on mars" picture. I printed it out and stuck it a couple different places all over the lab. You managed to piss off no less than three astronomy professors who think "that kind of joke is befitting of such an advanced society as ourselves." I guess he thinks we are in Atlantis, or maybe those things from Cocoon, because he sure as hell isn't talking about us.
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2004-04-12 09:11:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Well written but it told me nothing new.
Everyone pretty much thinks and feels this way as adulthood sets in.