“I just found out that there’s no such thing as the ‘real world’/
Just a lie you gotta rise above” – John Mayer No Such Thing
Love it or hate it, for those of us who can remember when John
Mayer first hit the scene should remember No Such Thing. It
plagued the radios until we all thought our ears would bleed and I
could probably still tell you every second of the video in perfect
sequence. Yes, glorious readers, I’m admitting I loved John
Mayer even before he was “cool” for being “blues-ier” –which is
not a word, I will tell you that right now. Forgetting about
slaughtering the English language for a moment, I digress.
The point here is the lyric above. When I left high school I was so
completely ready to be done I didn’t care what lay beyond
graduation. The truth was that I didn’t become Superwoman
when I graduated. I didn’t become insanely intelligent or
suddenly have a lot of money. I didn’t learn the meaning of life
when I touched my diploma and I sure as fuck didn’t find any
friends. When I left high school I talked to about 3 people. Of
those three I only call one my friend.
High school was always the time in life when people looked
forward to being “grown up” and finding the “real world” and
being successful in it. What I’ve learned since I joined
aforementioned “real world” is that is no different than the one
that I “left” when I graduated high school.
Just a lie you gotta rise above” – John Mayer No Such Thing
Love it or hate it, for those of us who can remember when John
Mayer first hit the scene should remember No Such Thing. It
plagued the radios until we all thought our ears would bleed and I
could probably still tell you every second of the video in perfect
sequence. Yes, glorious readers, I’m admitting I loved John
Mayer even before he was “cool” for being “blues-ier” –which is
not a word, I will tell you that right now. Forgetting about
slaughtering the English language for a moment, I digress.
The point here is the lyric above. When I left high school I was so
completely ready to be done I didn’t care what lay beyond
graduation. The truth was that I didn’t become Superwoman
when I graduated. I didn’t become insanely intelligent or
suddenly have a lot of money. I didn’t learn the meaning of life
when I touched my diploma and I sure as fuck didn’t find any
friends. When I left high school I talked to about 3 people. Of
those three I only call one my friend.
High school was always the time in life when people looked
forward to being “grown up” and finding the “real world” and
being successful in it. What I’ve learned since I joined
aforementioned “real world” is that is no different than the one
that I “left” when I graduated high school.
Since I started college, granted my habits have changed. My
priorities aren’t very different; I simply define those goals differently.
I earned a little bit more independence because I moved out of my
house…but as I’ve said before, there was no real difference.
I remember very clearly thinking…no, daydreaming about “the real
world” or Karma, what have you, bitch slapping all these assholes I
knew the second they left high school. I had this great idea that I’d
walk out of the graduation hall and see these utter jackasses that had
darkened the halls of my school for so long just being fish slapped by
fate and left with slimy scale prints on their faces.
I guess what I’m trying to get to is this. I know that a lot of Nyght
Scene readers are young and not far behind me. This is for all of you
who fall under that category. The ‘real world’ in that sense of Karma
or Fate just doesn’t exist. You can’t think about it, you can’t wait
around for it to make you a millionaire or crush you. You make your
future, you shape your existence. If you have dreams, go for them. Go
for gold and if you have to lose some baggage along the way, you
didn’t need it anyway. I promise you that.
- L/E/C
priorities aren’t very different; I simply define those goals differently.
I earned a little bit more independence because I moved out of my
house…but as I’ve said before, there was no real difference.
I remember very clearly thinking…no, daydreaming about “the real
world” or Karma, what have you, bitch slapping all these assholes I
knew the second they left high school. I had this great idea that I’d
walk out of the graduation hall and see these utter jackasses that had
darkened the halls of my school for so long just being fish slapped by
fate and left with slimy scale prints on their faces.
I guess what I’m trying to get to is this. I know that a lot of Nyght
Scene readers are young and not far behind me. This is for all of you
who fall under that category. The ‘real world’ in that sense of Karma
or Fate just doesn’t exist. You can’t think about it, you can’t wait
around for it to make you a millionaire or crush you. You make your
future, you shape your existence. If you have dreams, go for them. Go
for gold and if you have to lose some baggage along the way, you
didn’t need it anyway. I promise you that.
- L/E/C
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