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Always trust your instincts... well unless you're stupid.

Posted by Fiver on April 22nd, 2010 at 8:02 pm in Rant

Alaska and Ketchikan

So I am no longer a teenager. And upon having dinner with my folks to celebrate this fact I decide to tell them I'm ditching out on the rest of the semester, packing my backpack and starting to walk with my thumb out heading northwards. They say, "Are you trying to get us to buy you a ticket?" I respond no. They roll their eyes and look off into space running through what my responses will be to their arguments and then they keep chewing. Wow, its like the twentieth birthday really does have some magical power. Either that or it takes twenty years for people to realize I can't be talked out of my ideas.

But my point was not to be that. My point is that suddenly I am happy again. So I was wondering if this is a standard revelation. The realization that one is in complete control of one's life. When one feels like doing something, they should do it! People talk about all the things in their lives they don't like, and then they don't do anything about it. I refuse to be that guy. When I don't like a place, trying to stick it out is pretty pointless if I've already made up my mind, no? So suddenly everything seems to be happier. Like when AO brought shooting glasses to school and renamed them happy-vision-glasses. I like that.

And on that note, anybody know any Alaskans heading north from the Southwest? I still have some affairs to tie up before booking it, but I wouldn't mind joining a caravan versus hitchhiking.

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I think it's all good and a great choice to do exactly what you want. Though I will say that unless your school is free or and even if you paid for it yourself it's pretty irresponsible to waste that money.

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I agree. And I often find myself asking friends in college why they're paying thousands to not go to class. I hate to be making that mistake myself.
Bon courage. J'espère que tu réjouis dans ton indépendance.

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I think thats what I said I was doing. Rejoicing in it.
Alors, continues de réjouir. :D
A smarter man than me once said: "There comes a time that you look into a mirror and stop liking what you see. So, you fix it, accept it or stop looking into mirrors." May you feel the way you do right now when that moment comes. I think you will. So, take lots of pictures and come say hello if you get up here before June. And, if you can get to Socorro, NM before the middle of May, you might be able to catch a ride with Jake Auger.

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He's heading north from Socorro in May, that made perfect sense.
Berhh Jakes just heading even further north then k-tow after the semester? This is news to me.
TCN, you do not often understand the simplest of things! My. It almost drives a fellow to suggest a diagnosis of retardation.
Oh Oh I can do this too.

You swear a lot and yell random lewd things WHILE BEING RETARDED. So let's diagnose you with the following: Asbergers, Tourettes, and lets go with manic depressive because your mood swings are equivalent to that of spoiled teenage girl on her period.

See I can make baseless accusations too off one or two phrases you make on the internet too!
flame war flame war flame war ANARCHY
Naw I'm done, was just trying to prove a point. Using a few phrases from the internet to determine what someone is and isn't is one of the most stupid things you can do. Especially for me who takes <5 seconds to actually read through anything on this site.
Jake Auger... anybody know how I get ahold of him?
Shall I pm you his cell phone? He should be out of classes at this time.
that' be cool crimson.
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