On the contrary... (592 hits)
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Submitted by mike schlotzsky (View user info) at 2005-03-31 14:38:36 EST
So there you are. You're seventeen and you know exactly what you're going to do with your life...or more correctly, what you're NOT going to do with your life.
You're not going to do what they say, EVER. Even if you have to die trying. You'll never give into that whole corporate America scheme or that uniquely suburban middle-management ladder climbing. And you're sure as hell not going to turn out like your parents. Never. You will avoid THAT particular eventuality at all costs.
You're going to be your OWN person. Do whatever the hell you want to. You'll never back down from your principles, at the risk of losing your job, your friends, your dog, your livelihood, your best porn, your triple-zero gauges, your car, your clothes... You don't give a fuck. You'll never give in. You'll never settle down. You're going to get as far away from all that as possible because, for the love of god man, you are BETTER than that.
You'll probably end up living in a cardboard condominium underneath the eighth street bridge, but you don't care because you won't submit. You will fight the system and win. You'll show them.
And then...you wake up one day. You roll over and kiss the wife you swore never to have. You stumble towards the bathroom for a shower and a shave, followed by the selection of a neck tie that, in a previous life, would have been regarded as the capitalist pig's hangman's noose. But actually, you don't mind. Plus, your wife tells you that the blue brings out your eyes, not to mention it's one of those "power tie" things. Naturally this is important for your big presentation today.
You stroll down the stairs only to be greeted with a hug and a "Good morning, Daddy," by your six-year-old daughter who you promised you would never let yourself be tied down to. You scratch your chocolate lab behind the ears and put on the coffee, reading the sports page while it brews, checking your watch so you won't be late.
When you finally step out the door onto your sidewalk next to your neatly-planted flowerbeds, you pause, and reminisce for just a moment, remembering what you always said. You were going to fight the system. You were going to do your own thing. You weren't going to have a wife, or kids, or a house in SUBURBIA for christ's sake! You were going to let it all hang out and not give a damn!
So you ask yourself what happened.
You slowly retrace the steps and realize that you live in a nice neighborhood with a wife who is still as dead sexy as ever after nine years of marriage, a beautiful little girl, and a dog named Max. You wake up five days a week and go to work for eight hours and a lunch break and come home to some people you care about. You make a good salary, you go golfing and watch football on the weekends with your friends, you have barbecues in the summer. You are officially everything you ever swore that you would NOT be.
Fuck the establishment?
On the contrary...I would kill for that kind of certainty.
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Submitted by Jungle_Jimanee (user info) at 2005-04-05 06:06:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"On the contrary...I would kill for that kind of certainty."
Great ending.
Submitted by hobbs (user info) at 2005-04-01 03:11:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I guess turning 20 this year is a good thing.
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2005-03-31 16:43:20 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
I hate teenagers. Which means I hated myself until a year ago.
Submitted by jumpinjellyfish (user info) at 2005-03-31 16:01:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Life in a nutshell.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-03-31 15:20:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2005-03-31 15:12:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Teenagers are know-it-alls. They all get their wake-up call eventually.
Submitted by lethron (user info) at 2005-03-31 14:58:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
all that glimmers in this world is sure to fade
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-03-31 14:49:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
never give up the fight
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-03-31 14:45:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The future looks grim...
Submitted by Kre8rix (user info) at 2005-03-31 14:45:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-03-31 14:40:43 (#)
Ranking: 2
The story of my life.
But why am I still fighting?
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Mine too, but without all the happiness and wife and the house and stuff.
Wait a sec...
Nevermind
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2005-03-31 14:41:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Mr. Sandwich thank you for your post: it was filling and healthy.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-03-31 14:40:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The story of my life.
But why am I still fighting?