Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Baby Even The Losers

My life is so different than all the magazines say it should be. All those pretty people with their goals and ambitions and all that. I don't think I know anyone who has become what they wanted to be when they grew up. Most of my friends don't have a bit of ambition, I know I don't. Almost everyone I know didn't go to college to get a degree to get a job to better their life, they just fell into a job and stayed there.
The pretty people are buying tickets to the Police, my friends are being arrested. The pretty people have IRAs, my friends have DUIs. The pretty people have ambition, my friends have blind luck. I don't want to be the pretty people, or have friends that are. I don't like them very much. They're empty, and the people I know are real, with real lives and real problems. I'm perfectly happy with the friends I have.
I have a friend, a rich friend, who has suddenly come to the conclusion that he isn't cut out to work. He marvels me with stories about all the wonderful exotic places he's been and is going to, how full his life is and claims he's happy. I hope he is, because his life seems pretty empty to me. He's not a "pretty person" and that's why I like him, but I can't help but wonder what he wanted to be when he grew up. He's a friend and I truly and sincerely want all kinds of wonderful things to befall him ( like I do for all my friends), but the main thing I wish for him is to be truly happy.
Not really sure how I wound up with this group of people as my friends, and I don't much care, but what often amazes me is how similar we all are at the core. We all want the basic simplicities of life; health, happiness, a good solid relationship, fun and love. Yet, most of us aren't willing to put in the time and effort to get even that. We all drink too much, smoke too much, eat too much, abuse the hell out of our bodies,and if our minds are still functioning after that, that's fine too. All my friend and myself included, abuse some drug or another. They don't do much for any of us anymore, but we're addicted now.
I guess, the bottom line is be nice to us losers, because we're pretty cool. We don't need ambition and power to make us happy, we just need each other.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

It's Been Over A Year

Thanks to anyone who stuck around for over a year to see if I'd ever write anything again.

Check back tomorrow for a new post