Shit. Summer's almost over. School's starting soon.
I realize this today when the students come back into town, when I recieve my class catalogs. When I stepped out of the shower a few minutes ago - I was cold. The nights are chilly again.
In less than three months, I will be 19. I'll vote for the first time on November 7th, and turn 19 three days later. I have no career plans, and no real desire for any. I have about 25 college credits, transferable to more or less anywhere I want, but I don't want anywhere. I have about 3k in my bank account, and no ambition now that I've lost my will to enter politics. At the moment, my sole ambition is to retreat into the wilderness of upper michigan, preferably with another human, but that's not going to happen....
Then it strikes me - I'm dying.
If I am horribly lucky, I have some 65 years of life yet. The women in my family live into their late eighties, even mid ninties....so maybe I am really lucky and live another 70 years.
Which gets me to the point of this post - ye' young sciforummers, enjoy your lives while they last. Go out, get drunk, get laid, do drugs, frequent bacchanalian orgies.....or you will wake up ten years later regretting what could have been.
Live without regrets, as Musashi decided.
I realize this today when the students come back into town, when I recieve my class catalogs. When I stepped out of the shower a few minutes ago - I was cold. The nights are chilly again.
In less than three months, I will be 19. I'll vote for the first time on November 7th, and turn 19 three days later. I have no career plans, and no real desire for any. I have about 25 college credits, transferable to more or less anywhere I want, but I don't want anywhere. I have about 3k in my bank account, and no ambition now that I've lost my will to enter politics. At the moment, my sole ambition is to retreat into the wilderness of upper michigan, preferably with another human, but that's not going to happen....
Then it strikes me - I'm dying.
If I am horribly lucky, I have some 65 years of life yet. The women in my family live into their late eighties, even mid ninties....so maybe I am really lucky and live another 70 years.
Which gets me to the point of this post - ye' young sciforummers, enjoy your lives while they last. Go out, get drunk, get laid, do drugs, frequent bacchanalian orgies.....or you will wake up ten years later regretting what could have been.
Live without regrets, as Musashi decided.