The rat race and the corporate ladder are not for me. I have no interest in alarm clocks beckoning me to work, traffic that stifles my spirit, the pressure of deadlines and the stress of worry. I shun rules that try to control, and restrictions and regulations that aim to inhibit. Shoot convention, expectations, set plans and taboos. I prefer to lose control, break free, let go and relax. I hope to be ruled by adventure and have strange and dangerous encounters. I need novelty, uncertainty and the unknown.
Screw the system. I want my own life.
Screw commitment. Viva freedom!
I seek not security or settling or second best. I seek my ideals - a hippie utopia on a slice of paradise. Why waste your life on a meaningless job or trivial endeavours? Why not aim for something bigger. I want to refuse the false seductions of superficial success. I want to base my life on genuine experiences and authentic adventures. I want to shun conformity, I want to be nobody but myself.
I do my best to spit in the face of fear and embrace courage - the courage to begin, the courage to pursue my dreams and the courage to live my life the way I want to.
Go to hell with routine and monotony and mundanity and mediocrity. Now is not the time for a quiet life or a calm existence. Now is the time for movement and the open road and the wind in my hair and the sun on my face. I desire the reckless abandon of bare feet and tiny umbrellas in my drink. I crave a fresh perspective, a new language, a unique culture. I want to see the world. I want an endlessly changing horizon, to each day have a new and different sun.
Fuck the real world. I'm travelling.
* I wrote the bulk of this almost two years ago while I was a student. I still have the same convictions but maybe in not such an aggressive manner. Amazingly, and against my best attempts, my opinions have developed slightly. I still, however, am not the biggest fan of hard work nor blind conformity.
Nice one Matt. Your on my blogroll. gyshough.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteReading this made me think of the following by Carl W. Hirschmann..
ReplyDelete'I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon if I can. I seek opportunity not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of euphoria.
I will not trade my freedom for beneficence, nor my dignity for a handout. It is my heritage to think and to act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.
Mike Timm put me onto your Blog. What a pleasure - keep it up for those of us stuck behind the stale existence of routine.
I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
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