Your world comes crashing around you, smashing around you.
I can usually see the infinite minutia, but almost never the big picture.
Maybe I need to rethink my priorities.
It's not often I allow myself the time to step back and look at my life from afar. I really should complain less. I've got a pretty well-paying job for my age, though my hours are nothing less than shit, I'm in school, and I have my health.
I do think working at Wawa has made me bitter, though. College kids come in complaining that cigarettes are too expensive, then buy them anyway because they'd rather spend money than quit, those same kids, I ask them why they don't get a job, and they say it's cause they're in school. Well, fuck, that didn't stop me. I think what they mean to say is that if they had a job, they wouldn't be able to party every night and wake up in time for noon classes the next day. Shit, I've met people who think that getting up at 7 AM is ungodly early. They're in for a rude awakening in a few years, which brings me to my next point. None of these kids have any skills at all. They go to school on sports scholarships and most will never go pro, others piss away more of their opportunities every time they spend a night crouched over a toilet. Wearing that like a badge of honor is not the right move. Let's face it, the only thing you can do with a history degree is teach history.
The thing is, I'm not even jealous. I would hate to be like them. I just wish they would realize what they're doing to themselves, and fix it before it's too late. Not for their sake, of course, but because society has enough dead weight as it is, and we don't need any more of it.
Maybe I need to rethink my priorities.
It's not often I allow myself the time to step back and look at my life from afar. I really should complain less. I've got a pretty well-paying job for my age, though my hours are nothing less than shit, I'm in school, and I have my health.
I do think working at Wawa has made me bitter, though. College kids come in complaining that cigarettes are too expensive, then buy them anyway because they'd rather spend money than quit, those same kids, I ask them why they don't get a job, and they say it's cause they're in school. Well, fuck, that didn't stop me. I think what they mean to say is that if they had a job, they wouldn't be able to party every night and wake up in time for noon classes the next day. Shit, I've met people who think that getting up at 7 AM is ungodly early. They're in for a rude awakening in a few years, which brings me to my next point. None of these kids have any skills at all. They go to school on sports scholarships and most will never go pro, others piss away more of their opportunities every time they spend a night crouched over a toilet. Wearing that like a badge of honor is not the right move. Let's face it, the only thing you can do with a history degree is teach history.
The thing is, I'm not even jealous. I would hate to be like them. I just wish they would realize what they're doing to themselves, and fix it before it's too late. Not for their sake, of course, but because society has enough dead weight as it is, and we don't need any more of it.