I've often wondered what I would do if I decided to screw rules, responsibility and my goodie two-shoes reputation. Oh, the things I would do if my future was already guaranteed to be perfect and I had nobody's expectations to fill! And I had a small amount of money coming in regularly so that I could actually, you know, eat on my crazy adventures! Let's talk about that here! I'll stop shouting now!
1. I'd try my luck at creeping out of the house. I don't know where I'd go once I escaped, especially, but I'd go somewhere. It really doesn't matter where I went. I just always have thought that it would be cool to escape my house (No, I love my house and family in real life, people. Jeepers, your jumpy). Of course, it would be easy at nighttime- what I'm talking about, however, is a broad daylight climb through the window, then running across rooftops until I could jump into a tree, climb down, and then hit the road.
2. Robbing a store would also be fun. No, people reading this blog, I have absolutely no intentions to actually rob a store in my lifetime, but in my imagination it's fun to try. It would be a thrill; heart pounding, adrenaline pumping, going into a store and stealing from it, then sprinting away into the night while the sirens wailed behind you...
NO! I'M NOT GOING TO ROB ONE, OKAY!?
3. Skip school. I mean just flat out say one day; "you know what? I don't want to go to school today." And then just not go.
It sometimes comes as a shock to me when I re-realize that school is not actually my life. I mean, my life so far has revolved around the idea of waking up, going to school, waiting for the next weekend,then the next one, then the next long weekend, then summer holidays, and overall just waiting for school to end. Then I suppose it'll be waiting for university to end, and then it'll be waiting until I can retire. It's just waiting waiting waiting so that you can save save save so that you can sit around with other smelly old people until you die.
So sometimes, when a certain thought wanders into my head, my whole perception on life momentarily shifts. The thought is something like "wait… you don't have to do this, man. You could just quit school now and go live in the mountains in Utah, if you wanted. If you wanted to, you could live your life that way."
And I'm always amazed when I think that thought. So one day, I'd just like to flat out skip school. Break from routine. Break from tradition. Live a little.
4. Commit to some project, if only for a week, without letting anything get in my way.
Imagine that, say, you ant to write a book. And so you lock yourself in your room. You make your door and walls out of metal and you weld the two together so that you're living in a box. You cover the walls in soundproofing material. You drill air holes in the wall so you can breathe. You bring your laptop and a charger into the room (before you boxed it up, of course). You then hack the laptop so that it's always on Microsoft word, or pages, or scrivener, or even better, write or die. You absolutely cannot do anything on the laptop but write. And then you sit in your distraction-proof, responsibility-proof, sound-proof, and bomb-proof room and simply write like hell. Then you edit. You don't sleep, you only work. And then, in seven days, they melt the metal off your metal walls and drag you out. And you have written and edited a book.
I like this idea because I feel that if we really committed to doing anything,without fear of failure, then we truly could do anything. I wish I had that talent, but I don't. So thats why I need an everything-proofed box.
I've got to go and finish Paper Towns by John Green, which inspired this post. Until next time, sorry I missed last time it was my turn to post, and thanks for reading.
Cheers,
-Mark
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