So, barring religion, what are people here for anyway? Seriously, think about it. Is life really worth it in the long run? No one really remembers their first five years and it wouldn’t be worthwhile if we did. Who wants to recall running around in diapers and shytting yourself?
Ok, so the first bit of your childhood is a waste. Too much to learn and adapt to call it a life.
Let’s say 5-10 isn’t much better. You start school. Your first taste of being socialized by a morally bankrupt system. You learn to count and some of us learn to read. This is also the stage where you find out that the opposite sex sucks ass and you shouldn’t ever touch them for any reason. Later in this time period you start developing (or the lack of developing) social skills. This determines whether or not you will be a weird ass loser in high school. That’s right… THIS stage of your life will set you up for failure. Therefore it sucks too.
So, 11-15. Geez. This age span might be a tad better for some of us. We make some new friends that don’t just love us for our play dough and crayons. However, if you aren’t super mega cool from day to day in this stage then you get ditched (we haven’t learned loyalty yet) and it screws us up for life. Your best friend of a year suddenly meets more popular people and you are swept away with the garbage. Wow, how exciting. Also, we suddenly start to find the opposite sex really fracking appealing during this period. Which adds a whole new layer of suckdom to life. Who the fck wants to spend hours pining away over whether or not Johnny is going to call? Or if Stacy really winked at you? Your brain begins to shut down right around here too… school starts to get harder and the common sense that you never developed begins to fail you. This is probably the shyttiest stage for anyone around us that is in an older stage.
Next we enter the 16-21 stage… the ultimate fck up stage. The drugs, sex, and alcohol (or again, lack thereof) stage. You either totally ruin this whole span of your life with drugs, pining over the opposite sex, and booze… or you cannot get the opposite sex, drugs, and booze. Either way, you are a loser. You’ve either totally shunted your brain and wasted your time on thinking of sex, or you were mistreated because you didn’t dedicate yourself to high school entertainments and you studied. Again, either way… you are fucked. You’ve now become a druggie loser with less than 4 brain cells or an antisocial nerd that actually learned to think for yourself (you guys will have better end results… but getting their slightly ruined your life).
So now enter the real world. The world of jobs and politics (mostly ignored by the United States and its education system). Money starts to mean something and your social life (considering you had one) begins to flounder. Here the nerds have an advantage because the never developed a social circle… this is why they succeed. There is no transition period. They never had a social life; therefore they don’t waste precious time adapting. They go on to become Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. If you have a family this is the point where you start ignoring them to work overtime… to provide for them--even though you are beginning to ruin another generation of children by ignoring them.
The next years of your life fly by with nary a reward in site. You got promoted (or fired if you never gave up the pot), big deal? What’s it matter in the grand scheme of things? Did you ever see the pyramids? The Grand Canyon? The Great Wall?
Did you ever do anything that had any meaning? Did you invent something, save someone, help a stranger, dedicate your life to something bigger than yourself? Did it ever occur to you that you could? Or were you too wrapped up in yourself and your struggles to branch out?
If you suddenly found yourself in a doomed situation and began to look back on your life would it make proud? Or would you have nothing worthwhile to remember?
