ArtVandelay
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There's something to be said about the "things happen when you least expect it" theory, and that you could, for example, meet a friend who knows a girl who's perfect for you, or find a job through a friend. Personally, I don't like putting my life in the hands of other people. To quote Bill Parcells, "They want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries."
I'm a first-class gentleman, tall and in shape. I've been through more and come out on top in a quarter of a millennium than most people will experience in a year of their life. Why should I settle for second best in anything? The Patriots don't get a trophy because they almost won the Super Bowl, and a man doesn't get anything but a life of torture and discontentment if he dates fatties with "inner beauty" and lives a lackluster life.
If you want something, you have to go out and get it. The world wants you to be mediocre. The world wants you to have that 9 to 5 office job and go home to some UG or fattie and pay her way through life. It's time, we as men, step up, take what's rightfully ours, and live a life that's second to none.
I know a guy a year younger than me who's a really good drummer. His parents gave him a speech about how there's no money in music, so instead of going to a music college, he majored in business. Now he has some job where he's making good money for someone his age, but he traded in his drumsticks for a 9 to 5 existence and some ugly, chain-smoking girlfriend with a kid from a previous relationship, and she's pushing marriage and a house on him already. Deep down, he's not happy. He might wake up some day when he's 40 and have a Kevin Spacey in American Beauty moment, but by then it will be too late.
People ask me, "What do you do for a living?" and they hear either I'm not working or I'm working a temporary low-paying job while I'm figuring out how to achieve my goals. They hear about someone like the guy I know and look at him as a success. Last time I checked, an AFC isn't successful, regardless of his paycheck. He took the easy way out, and he sold his soul to stocks and bonds and is likely to marry his older, baggage-carrying girlfriend.
People define success in different ways, but a year from now, if I've dated and laid beautiful women, found musicians that are on the same page, musically and professionally, as myself, and found a regular job that I enjoy and doesn't take over my life to the point where I'm not able to be in a band, I'll consider myself a success.
I'm a first-class gentleman, tall and in shape. I've been through more and come out on top in a quarter of a millennium than most people will experience in a year of their life. Why should I settle for second best in anything? The Patriots don't get a trophy because they almost won the Super Bowl, and a man doesn't get anything but a life of torture and discontentment if he dates fatties with "inner beauty" and lives a lackluster life.
If you want something, you have to go out and get it. The world wants you to be mediocre. The world wants you to have that 9 to 5 office job and go home to some UG or fattie and pay her way through life. It's time, we as men, step up, take what's rightfully ours, and live a life that's second to none.
I know a guy a year younger than me who's a really good drummer. His parents gave him a speech about how there's no money in music, so instead of going to a music college, he majored in business. Now he has some job where he's making good money for someone his age, but he traded in his drumsticks for a 9 to 5 existence and some ugly, chain-smoking girlfriend with a kid from a previous relationship, and she's pushing marriage and a house on him already. Deep down, he's not happy. He might wake up some day when he's 40 and have a Kevin Spacey in American Beauty moment, but by then it will be too late.
People ask me, "What do you do for a living?" and they hear either I'm not working or I'm working a temporary low-paying job while I'm figuring out how to achieve my goals. They hear about someone like the guy I know and look at him as a success. Last time I checked, an AFC isn't successful, regardless of his paycheck. He took the easy way out, and he sold his soul to stocks and bonds and is likely to marry his older, baggage-carrying girlfriend.
People define success in different ways, but a year from now, if I've dated and laid beautiful women, found musicians that are on the same page, musically and professionally, as myself, and found a regular job that I enjoy and doesn't take over my life to the point where I'm not able to be in a band, I'll consider myself a success.