You don’t go to College?
Why Not? Everyone else does!
Well what are you going to do?
You’re Twenty years old, you have got to have figured it out by now, right?
Everyone else has! Oh you haven’t…well you better find out quick before it’s too late, you know, you’re already Twenty! Times a ticking! I've heard it from everyone. Relatives, Girls, Friends, people who have just met me. Everyone.
You know right from the start when something just isn't right for you as a person. I’m twenty. I love traveling, sports, Wombats, and most importantly I love writing. I don’t go to school and I work at the YMCA. Not the path that many opt for and not the path that I thought I would take. But I’m not complaining and not a day goes by where I think I took the wrong turn. I don't think I did any wrong in the selection of how I'd live my post high school life. Hell I'm still on the same pedestal as you College kids for now. So what do I have to worry? Nothing. If I died tomorrow a lot of people may say "Wow he really didn't do anything with his life. But the way I look at it, I've done a lot more than most people may have seen. I chose this way and I'm sticking to it.
Let's take a look at a made up schedule of "What I'm missing out on"
- Monday: Class all day (Actually listening) & doing
homework due last Thursday.
- Tuesday: Class all day (Playing the helicopter game the whole class) &
doing your homework due tomorrow.
- Wednesday: Class all day (Actually listening and being so confused) &
studying that turns into cat videos on YouTube all night.
- Thursday: No classes, screw homework…SHOTS!
- Friday: 2 classes (Eh I’ll go to one, eh what’s another skip going to do?
DAY OFF!), still doing homework that was due Tuesday.
- Saturday: Get absolutely shit bombed to drown out your terrible school
week and sleep with someone you don’t know.
- Sunday: Wake up so hungover, next to a salt shaker and find out your
all your overdue work.
That's not the life for me. I'm not one for tests. I write, I watch sports and I live day by day.
The way I look at it, I’m living my retirement right now. Everyone goes to college to get a job, to work that job and get money so that by the time they are 65 they can quit their job and just sit on the couch and yell at their wife/husband if they still have one. What can you do then? You just studied and worked your entire life away to get to here…watching the Patriots play and eating a hot dog and LIVING THE LIFE! WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS MOMENT! YEAH! And why do they do that? Because that's what they were told to do. That's what others instructed them to do. They followed somebody else on how to live their own life.
No thanks, I’m good. If I’m going to work my whole life away, it can wait for now. I’m going to live my retirement now at the age of Twenty. Want to go to a Twins game at Yankee Stadium on a Tuesday night? I’m in. Want to go to South Carolina for Thanksgiving? I'm in. Hey, want to go to Oregon mid week and stay until Monday? Yeah, I do. I like the life I live, I like being able to control where and what I do, I don’t live by an extreme schedule. I don’t have to wake up everyday at a certain time to go into a classroom with a bunch of miserable people who don’t want to be there. Instead I go onto a bus everyday with a sixty-six year old Vietnam vet, I get to hear his stories about war, his family, how he feels about driving everywhere everyday and a ton of other tid bits and stories and I love it. Then I head to a school with a bunch of 5-11 year olds who eat snacks, draw and play capture the flag in the gym. They have no clue what the real world has in store for them, but then again, do any of us? Once Six p.m. comes I’m free. I have the whole night ahead of me for whatever I want to do. If I want to go home and sleep, it doesn’t screw anything up. If I want to go out, no one is stopping me. If I want to just play Xbox all night, I may do just so.
You see everyone goes around everyday like “Freedom!! Slavery is dead!!!” Yet you follow orders from people who are “higher up” about what you should do so that maybe if you’re lucky you can teach future kids the same concept. It’s just a never ending cycle of controlling. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m no rebel nor am I advising you to be one. I follow rules and it’s right to follow rules, I just don’t believe you should follow someone else’s opinion on how you should prepare to live the rest of your life. But then again I guess that last sentence just contradicted this whole story/blog/whatever you want to call it.
Now 90% of my friends go to College and they’ll go on to be Teachers and Physical Trainers and Nurses and all that good stuff and it will be awesome. It will be worth it to them when that time comes and they succeed and that’s great. But they know that’s where the road starts to wind down. You have seen your entire journey since the day you got that acceptance letter.
I was never one for following a syllabus, I think being spontaneous is the best thing you can be besides being funny. You never know what’s to come when you’re spontaneous. Go to a college party in a green spandex suit and 5 years later you’re still friends with the kids that live in that house. See an inflatable snowman and tackle it although you have a fractured wrist. Why? Because you just wanted to give your friends a good laugh. You see, spontaneity is beautiful thing because you can be on your way to a Yankee game, take a turn for no reason at all and find yourself looking at the Twin Towers on September 9th 2001. Spontaneous decisions are the stories you find yourself talking about for the rest of your life, so why not tally them up?
I was never one for following a syllabus, I think being spontaneous is the best thing you can be besides being funny. You never know what’s to come when you’re spontaneous. Go to a college party in a green spandex suit and 5 years later you’re still friends with the kids that live in that house. See an inflatable snowman and tackle it although you have a fractured wrist. Why? Because you just wanted to give your friends a good laugh. You see, spontaneity is beautiful thing because you can be on your way to a Yankee game, take a turn for no reason at all and find yourself looking at the Twin Towers on September 9th 2001. Spontaneous decisions are the stories you find yourself talking about for the rest of your life, so why not tally them up?
Now all of you in College may be reading this saying “Wow I can’t believe this whole thing, this so ignorant to say about my lifestyle!” and I’m saying the same exact thing.
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