What if I have some mutant gene triggered by hormone-laced food plotting to kill me. I know I’m young (relatively, anyways) but horrible things happen to young people all the time.
I wake up with this incessant pain in my ribs and back. Was told a few years ago that I had poor posture, spent too many hours typing away on a laptop, contorted and stiff. I don’t know. Winter brings out the hypochondriac in me.
Anyway, that’s not the purpose of this rambling. I’m pissed off at people who repeat that live life like it’s your last day bullshit. I just heard it for the 3rd time this week.
I have bills, student loans, family to help. I have a boss who thinks that he owns my soul. I’ve lived in hotels for most of the last 2 months thanks to work. The thought of filthy people doing filthy things in these beds makes me gag. Am I the only one who covers a pillow with a t-shirt?
A few much anticipated milestones have come and gone and all I have to show for my life is a couple of degrees and a couple thousand resentments. I could’ve sworn the dean was laughing at me both times I got my bleeding degrees.
What I’d like people to stop doing is reminisce about their youth when they didn’t have the balls to do shit with it. Yes, if you had the guts, you would’ve gone after what you wanted. But no, all you have now is lame-ass, unwanted “live life to the fullest” rubbish to pass off as sage advice.
Work, pay bills, send money, workout, get harassed by immigration people at airports. Oh yeah, for that peroxide officer in Pittsburgh: I hope you die, you worthless CUNT! Thanks to showing up late for a meeting, I lost a 4 day weekend I’ve been planning for months!
I am doing what I can. Living to the fullest or any other bullshit drivel belongs to the retirement group, too old, too lazy, too stupid to have done anything. Full or not, my live is being lived, which is more than I could say for some of you.
November 16, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Hi there!
I think what they mean when they say that is to live everyday (atleast as much as you can, keepin the bills to be paid in mind) like you would like to, not have to.
Welcome to the Somali Blogging Community!
November 16, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Hmm…never known what that means either. If today was my last day, I would clear out my account and blow it all on pleasurable things…
Not exactly sustainable, is it?
November 16, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Hi flower.of.chaos, thanks for the welcome. I figured that’s what they mean and it caught me in a hell of a week. It just seems so retirement home, so club med, not the kind of thing to say to an office slave.
firefly, I actually asked the 3rd person who said it what they meant. I got no answer.
November 17, 2006 at 2:08 am
Welcome to the blogosphere fellow office slave!
November 19, 2006 at 6:16 am
lol I know what you mean. That stupid phrase makes me depressed.
November 20, 2006 at 6:09 am
OKAY I’ll be a total optimist here…that phrase is to make you want to see beauty in life…little things…sorry I’m a sucker for the everyday lil moments…I live for them…they just make my heart smile…but we are entitled to shit weeks just make sure it doesn’t become a habit…smell the roses a lil…and as for your covering the pillow with a t-shirt TRUST me I did the same especially when I saw unknown stains….eeewwww…yeah just remembered the toilet
p.s. WELCOME Darlin
)