There are a lot of things in life that
people will say are worth fighting for. Family, freedom, wealth, and
happiness. But sometimes those things don't exactly line up with your
version of happy and the next thing you know people are looking at
you as if you're a strange ass weirdo because you don't have the same
values as them. In this Fives Things I Learned Aren't Worth It For Me
I'll talk about the ones that I think of the most in my own life
because this is my own blog. And you can be happy you are not me.
Being In Amazing Shape
At multiple points in my life I had
wanted to be in amazing shape. What I mean by this is having a body
that looked like something you'd see at the beach and not want a
seagull to fly away with it because it was scaring the children. I
have been super skinny, fat, in between, and what I currently am (at
201 pounds) not fat but not in shape enough to scare someone if we
got into a fight with my dangerous muscles. And I no longer want to
be.
I know how I am and if I had abs and
then woke up without them I would be mad as hell and depressed. And
you know what? Sit ups hurt! Have you ever done one of those things?
Oh, lord. Your body starts shaking. You walk around all sore. “But
if you keep doing them it hurts less?” No thanks, ya weirdos! Plus
for some reason I used to get more ass when I was in terrible shape.
I think if I went ahead and got boobs again I'd be too busy getting
some stank on my hang low to be writing this.
Working Till I'm Dead
School, college (for some), work, kids,
retire, die. That is supposed to be the way it goes but for me in the
last six years I have had the luxury of working for four months
usually and for the most part its been pretty cool except for when I
am poor and staring at my walls wondering why I'm alive. But when I thought I'd be on a path towards a career and a “normal”
life the idea of working until I was old and raggedy and hopefully
saving enough money to not be put in a old folks home where they
throw toilet paper on fire at me while I eat my apple sauce.
I have no idea how my life is going to
pan out in the end, none of us do, but I have known for quite some
time that I did not want to be old and finally get to take time to do
what I wanted during earlier times. Even the concept of retirement is
laughable if you watch anything regarding it. I have no desire
whatsoever to run this meat starship into the ground and then die
because of it. For some of you that life sounds like paradise and
I'll never try to stop you from having it. Its just not worth it for
me.
Being Someone Else
Too much work! Its so hard trying to be
someone else even when you don't like who you currently are. I used
to hate myself for a multitude of reasons but over time realized that
I wasn't such a bad guy. And whenever I entertained the idea of being
someone else just the thought of it exhausted me. See guys treat
girls like shit and think “I should give that a try. Nah. Too much
pretending involved.” Try to be more social and that made me like
people even less. Try new things I knew I wouldn't like in an effort
to try something I hadn't before that I knew I wouldn't and it would
re-enforce what I first thought. I learned to like being me which
makes this a letting you know what I learned within a five things I
learned so this is an extra learned...thing.
Take Care Of Someone/Something Else
I was talking to my cousin recently
about barely being able to keep my plants alive sometimes. Having a
kid or another adult in my life would be far too much for someone
like me. I'm what many would call selfish. Not all the time, but when
it comes to my own self preservation and time I very much am. I have
had people tell me to get a pet which I've had before. I don't wanna.
Not just because I'm in an apartment and that is mean to me, but
because not only do I have not the capacity to care for a living
creature, but it also bums me out when they die. My fish died years
ago and it still pisses me off.
As for taking care of someone else I
mean that in a friend type of way. I'm not good at making new friends
and I know that new people equals new problems. As Denzel Washington
said in that documentary Training Day “I supervise five officers.
That's five different personalities. Five sets of problems.” I only
have enough room for so many people so when I let someone new in its
a big deal. But...I can't take on new people that let me know from
the jump that there's gonna be a problem. You go bye now.
Shouting At People
Shouting has never gotten me to do
anything faster than just get away from you. I have raised my voice
in anger twice since I was 18 years old. I grew up in a shouty
environment and knew from an early age that it didn't really do
anything but create noise or make people feel like shit. I am more
likely to just stare at someone shouting, silently judging them while
simultaneously planning an exit strategy. I look at the people in my
life that I love and one thing they have in common is that they don't
shout at me. And they're women. And aren't attracted to me.
If you get what you want by shouting
chances are that I don't want to be friends with you anyway. Its just
not a nice thing to do to people. I can't even think of someone that
shouts at people that I know of that I ever think is a happy person.
Its not worth the stress, energy, or hurt feelings that shouting
causes for me to do it to someone I care about.
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