Your Future · 10:43am Feb 18th, 2016
You can't buy this intangible thing.
It's the future, what're you going to do?
Talk about it? Act like it's not there and wait for it to come to you? Do you think you have the time to do that?
Grasp it! Take it down like you're in the desert and it's the water you've craved to slake your thirst.
Many people will try to sell you this precious commodity. Don't listen to them. Don't even listen to this. Just grab it with your bare hands and make it yours. After all, it doesn't belong to someone else. Everybody wants you to think that. You need to spend some of it here, you need to get it there, you need to buy, buy, buy it. WRONG!
Screw it, you don't need that shit. It's what you make of it, not something that can be bartered or exchanged. It's far too precious a commodity for that. Get it. Hold it. HOLD IT. Never let it go.
Most of all, don't listen to some stranger telling you what to do with it. Just do what you want. Time is limited, and your future can only be so much further ahead, do what you want. Be free.
Are you still reading this post? Do what you want already!
On a side note if you're still here, I don't want any money, but please consider donating to a charity and telling me about it!
If you do, you'll earn a spot on my user page, with a special thanks from me in my next story! Thanks for being a good person!
Well, not exactly Shakespeare but it has heart.
As for charity, it isn't much but a year ago when my newborn son got sick we had to spend two weeks at the children's hospital. While there my wife stayed at the Ronald McDonald house. Say what you will about the restaurants, but this house was amazing. If you don't know what it does, it basically provided a free place to stay for families with little ones in the hospital. Not only that, but kitchen space, a free sack lunch daily. We also were their when they had decorated for Christmas, and holy heck! I've never seen such an outpouring of charity, dedication, and goodwill. We were fortunate, after two weeks, my boy got better, but God, theirs were families that has been their for a nearly a year, while their babies continued to struggle to recover.
Since then, every time we go to McDonalds, I empty the change compartment of my wallet, everytime.
3762282 That's awesome, I'm glad to know that the money they collect actually goes where they say!
3762283 worth every penny. Even the parents pf terminal kids, and their were more then a few, felt a little lighter and hopeful because someone was looking out for them. Someone cared enough to say, "we got this, you go to your kid."
I'm sick and tired of empty motivational speeches. But they are necessary to motivate the brain though. Same thing for this post.
Personally I don't care about the future too much. I don't have a certain tangible goal. I just want to be with friends and happy. Talk about it? I don't even know where to go... grasp it? Hell if I knew what it was... University is now a god-damn chore. I am no longer interested objectively in the classes that I study, computer engineering is no longer appealing for me. Quitting is out of the question so life just mechanically goes forward.
I have no spark, no real basis on where I want to go. I sometimes feel... empty. I am a fucked up individual.
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Who cares what I say? Be with your friends, attend university, switch your course, stay in it. I'm not here to tell you what to do, but all I'm saying is that time's a ticking, and it's best to do something now before you regret it. It's all opinion anyway, so feel free to just chuck it all out of the window!
Personally, I've found that doing what I like makes something worth doing, it may sound hedonistic, but that's my motivation. Of course there are highs and lows, but survivor bias and observational selection are my blissful friends.
3766854 I just want someone to actually show signs of caring and enjoying my company.
3766943 Fair enough, but I think that just comes naturally if you're nice and personable. If you're not, well... sorry I can't help you there.
3766999 If friends only care about your good moments they aren't friends.