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I really need to sort myself out because life's just gonna end up passing me by and before you know it I'll be an old man who wasted his life.
...Real Pain For My Sham Friends...
When you have been in the same job for more than ten years you find yourself wondering 'what if?'. What if I didn't reply to that advert in the newspaper.
Sometimes I find myself taking the easy path through life. The one that is signposted: route of least resistance.
What if the world was a cube. What if that cube of life and beautiful things had eight points that held a mountain in each.
Hmm... I have a problem... You see when I was younger (7th grade maybe, since I never really had a 8th or 9th) I wanted to be a lawyer, and don't be mistaken I still do.
As I sped down the hallway, my mind was alive with thought. Hundreds of factors, boiling down to two exits, both at the end of the eerie corridor.
So recently, at this crucial point in my life I have been wondering. I wonder a lot, in fact I live in my own little land of wonders - but this wondering is different.
Sometimes in life they'll come a time when you'll stubble upon a crossroad. There will be only 2 ways that you will be able to go. The thing is though, each path leads to 2 completely different lives.
Batch 20XX. I'm a graduating student. I fooled around with my boyfriend. Months later, I now carry a child. I'm a graduating student. I tried using drugs. Now, it turn to an addiction I can't let go.
I'm gonna buy me a car before a crib. I'm gonna buy me the new iPhone 4s before a baby monitor. I'm gonna travel to London before the obgyn. I'm gonna buy me a Chanel purse before a diaper bag.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.